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Ali Khamenei’s killing continues long US tradition of letting others pull the trigger

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par Luca Trenta, Associate Professor in International Relations, Swansea University
Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi, Associate Professor of Instruction, University of South Florida

The US and Israel assassinated Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a joint operation in late February. In a post on social media, Donald Trump boasted that Khamenei was “unable to avoid our Intelligence and Highly Sophisticated Tracking Systems”. Trump added that “there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do”.

The US helped plan the operation, provided key intelligence to identify Khamenei’s location and destroyed…

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