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Strategic Assessment: March 2026

The regime is headless. The war is not over.

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Uri Zehavi — אורי זהבי
Mar 01, 2026
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Shavua tov, friends.

Israel killed the Supreme Leader of Iran on Saturday morning. Operation Roaring Lion — the largest combat sortie in IDF history — struck more than 500 targets, decapitated the IRGC’s senior command, and collapsed Iran’s command-and-control infrastructure to 4% internet connectivity before the first missile landed. The regime is in succession crisis, firing what remains of its ballistic inventory in attritional drips while proxy networks activate on autopilot. The question animating March is what fills the vacuum — in Tehran, in Beirut, in Gaza, in the Gulf, and on the Israeli home front, where eight people are dead in Beit Shemesh and 150,000 Bedouin citizens have no shelters to reach.

The supreme leader is dead, the missiles are still flying, and everything from proxy activation to Iranian succession to Israel’s home front is in play. Subscribe for the strategic picture without the fog.

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