1. In the tense hours following the American killing of a top Iranian military commander, the country’s "supreme leader," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made a rare appearance at a meeting of the government’s National Security Council to lay down the parameters for any retaliation. It must be a direct and proportional attack on American interests, he said, ope…
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