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Seemingly sheltering in a bunker with limited access to the outside world, Ayatollah Khamenei has shrinking options available
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H
iding in a secret bunker, speaking indirectly to commanders through a handful of trusted aides, naming a string of successors to his increasingly battered military command — and significantly, to his own position— and avoiding anything trackable or electronic.













