Israel has taken out Iran’s intelligence chief, Esmaeil Khatib, the third in the top leadership to be eliminated. The IDF has been authorised to take them out in turn. The regime will be left without leaders. This affects the ability to issue command. The lines are broken.

The Israeli Defence Forces killed Iran’s intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, in an air strike on Tehran overnight, Israel’s defence minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday, adding that “significant surprises” were expected later in the day.
Khatib was the third senior Iranian official to be killed within 24 hours.
“Today, significant surprises are expected on all fronts that will escalate the war we are waging against Iran and Hizbollah in Lebanon,” Katz said during a security assessment, in remarks from his office.
“The intensity of the attacks in Iran is increasing. The Iranian intelligence minister Khatib was also eliminated overnight,” he said.
A few hours later, Israel struck Iran’s largest gas processing facility in Bushehr Province.

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