Democracy Dies in Darkness
The president says the country’s surviving leaders are more reasonable, but assassinations have left an emboldened government driving a hard bargain, officials say.
April 3, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. EDT1 minute ago
The assassinations of Iran’s senior leaders by Israel and the United States have triggered unprecedented churn within Tehran’s political and military establishment, eliminating the supreme leader and some of the most powerful men in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but have left in place a hard-line government and little hope of a diplomatic breakthrough, according to regional and Western officials.
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