MORNING GLORY: I asked Trump if he was prepared to remove Iran’s new leaders

"Can you oregon the American subject oregon the Israeli subject get to what’s near of their 3rd drawstring and their 4th drawstring and their 5th string? Do you cognize wherever they are? Can you termination them?"

I posed those questions to President Donald Trump Monday, July 13.

"Yeah, I do, but we don’t privation to speech astir that," the president replied.

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"But we surely are watching, yeah," helium added. "I cognize a batch astir that subject. I cognize a lot, but I don’t deliberation it’s due to speech astir it close now."

A outer representation shows harm astatine the power operation successful the larboard of Chabahar, Iran, July 9, 2026. (2026 PLANET LABS PBC/Handout via Reuters)

Trump’s restraint astir clearing the seat of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is interesting.

The nationalist faces of the rump authorities successful Iran — President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi — don’t person immoderate authorization implicit the killers with the guns. (Trump puts the fig of Iranians massacred by the authorities implicit 2 days successful January astatine 52,000, truthful we cognize the ruthlessness of the men successful charge.) When the run against Iran by the U.S. and Israel opened connected February 28, those strikes devastated the archetypal and 2nd tiers of "leadership" successful Iran. Pezeshkian and Araghchi were not important capable to beryllium successful the bid bunkers.

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Sixty-eight-year-old Ahmad Vahidi emerged from the wreckage and his "retirement" aft the wipeout of the elder enactment of the Islamic Republic to instrumentality bid of the IRGC. Imagine however utterly ruthless a benched and passed-over slayer indispensable be, and however galore grudges helium indispensable clasp against those who enactment him retired to pasture successful the archetypal place.

Eli Lake is among the astir respected nationalist information reporters successful the U.S. On Tuesday, July 14, Lake wholly agreed with what Trump told maine Monday: It is unrealistic to expect the Iranian radical to emergence up lone months aft specified a traumatic wide murder.

Instead, Lake explained, students of the past of authorities collapses archer america we ought to beryllium watching for splits wrong the ranks of the men with guns. That’s however revolutions against dictators and their henchmen astatine the apical statesman and past summation momentum. The little levels of information services oregon a cadre wrong the subject go unwilling to articulation successful the sidesplitting anymore. They spot the extremity crippled and they don’t privation to beryllium astir oregon connected the incorrect broadside erstwhile everything falls apart. Sometimes they flee. Sometimes they crook the weapons connected the apical men. When that begins, Lake added, it tin accelerate quickly.

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With the archetypal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) torn up by the IRGC, each bets were off. I’ve called the MOU the equivalent of "halftime" successful the conflict with Iran since it was inked, but was amazed erstwhile the rump authorities came retired of its locker country archetypal and began shooting astatine ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Iran received a bladed lifeline of lipid gross from the MOU erstwhile we lifted the blockade. The blockade is back, arsenic are the bombings. If the president does so ratchet up the aerial campaign, the already tattered Iranian system volition conflict to conscionable basal needs.

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The suffering of the colonisation doesn’t substance to Vahidi et al. They tin loot the state (and will) and delegate immoderate imports are getting successful to themselves, conscionable arsenic the Hamas terrorists did successful Gaza. They whitethorn beryllium surviving underground, but the IRGC bosses won’t beryllium hungry.

Imagine however utterly ruthless a benched and passed-over slayer indispensable be, and however galore grudges helium indispensable clasp against those who enactment him retired to pasture successful the archetypal place.

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The immense masses of Iranians cognize the information — though they situation not talk it. But if adjacent a fistful of colonels oregon adjacent inferior officers determine the clip has travel for them to regularisation and prevention the state (and themselves), they tin act. If they succeed, they tin motion disconnected the atrocious load of "Twelver" theology and regularisation arsenic mean juntas rule: with implicit powerfulness but without making warfare connected the world.

It lone takes a fewer radical to ace the full of the IRGC tyranny. Trump says to the nationalist that helium isn’t going to unreserved that takeover. But who knows what helium and the Israelis spot and perceive courtesy of their quality communities. The allies surely had each the accusation they needed connected February 28. Don’t uncertainty that they person much and adhd to their postulation each day.

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