Iran’s embattled leaders have found themselves in an existential struggle domestically to protect nearly a half-century of rule.

Airstrikes continued for a sixth day Wednesday amid the most intense faceoff in the history of the Israel-Iran conflict. The confrontation that began Friday, when Israel launched an air campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear program and its military leaders,

As Israel pounds Iran with airstrikes targeting military facilities and its nuclear sites, officials in Tehran have proposed a variety of steps the Islamic Republic could take outside of launching ret