Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not only picked replacements in his chain of military command in case they are killed in Israeli strikes, he has also named three senior clerics to replace him should he, too, be slain.

Trump is poised to escalate war with Iran on the false premise of stopping a nuclear bomb. Meanwhile, Israel has had undisclosed nuclear weapons since the 1960s, refuses to sign the Non-Proliferatio...