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Khamenei’s inner circle has been significantly decimated, leaving him reliant on a small cadre of advisers and his son, who is believed to be a potential successor and is coordinating military and political decisions. The regime’s regime’s inner instability has been compounded by the loss of regional allies, including the assassination of a Lebanese Hezbollah chief, the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and other regional setbacks that have fractured Iran’s axis of resistance.