It moved through shell companies in Dubai and Caracas, surfaced in front groups from Beirut to the Tri Border Area, and armed men who would never shake hands with a cleric in Qom but were happy to take his cash, his drones, and his direction. That is why the recent strikes, which targeted senior leadership including the confirmed killing of Ayatollah Khamenei in a strike on his Tehran compound, degraded command nodes in Tehran, and disrupted missile and security infrastructure, matter beyond immediate battlefield effects. If Iran functioned as the central hub for terror proxies, illicit finance pipelines intertwined with criminal networks, disinformation operations, and influence campaigns that fed instability abroad and division at home, then dismantling that hub is not reckless escalation.
Author: Rick de la Torre
Published at: 2026-03-04 23:11:30
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