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Everyone hopes that Donald Trump’s attack on Iran’s nuclear sites will prove to be one of America’s shortest wars. Although the fighting has stopped for now, the permanence of the truce, and the fate of the Middle East, depend on answers to
three questions.
Those answers will be influenced by a group of generals who are now assuming command of Iran. For the first time since Iran’s revolution in 1979, the clerics are not in charge.
Our correspondent
examines the consequences of a momentous power shift.
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