Middle East & Africa | Weekend profile
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s great survivor
War with Israel has put the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader back in his Manichean comfort zone
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Editor’s note: On June 22nd Iran time Donald Trump said that America had bombed Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, three nuclear sites.
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