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U.S. and Israeli operations are now converging on the key areas the regime must hold
2026-04-01

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U.S. and Israeli operations are now converging on the key areas the regime must hold.

This is not collapse yet. But the pattern is getting more dangerous for Tehran: U.S.-Israeli operations are hitting the regime’s political center of gravity in Greater Tehran, its ideological-security axis around Qom-Fordow, its military-industrial core in Isfahan-Natanz, and additional population centers such as Tabriz and Shiraz.

At the same time, the regime is acting like a government worried about what happens after the bombing as much as the bombing itself. Tehran is escalating arrests, executions, checkpoint control, and wartime legal threats to deter unrest before it starts.

The five hold areas I am watching most closely:

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