Iran’s top officials keep dying. This is how the regime is surviving.

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  Good morning.

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  Israel kills two of Iran's most powerful officials in a major blow to its leadership,

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  but the Wall Street Journal explains why an uprising remains unlikely, at least for now.

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  The government has made it very clear that if anyone takes to the streets during the war,

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  they will face intense violence.

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  Trump's pick to run Homeland Security faces the Senate.

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  The Atlantic looks at a major challenge coming his way.

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  And what happened when all the lights went out in Cuba.

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  It's Wednesday, March 18th.

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  I'm Cecilia Leigh and this is Apple News Today.

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  Iran suffered two major losses at the top yesterday

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  after Israel killed the leader of the country's volunteer paramilitary group

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  as well as its security chief, a man described by Reuters as Iran's ultimate backroom power broker.

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  Their deaths raise more questions over who is making the decisions on Iran's war behind the scenes

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  as the world waits for its new supreme leader to make his first public appearance.

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  Since the start of the war, Israel has strategically targeted the regime's senior decision-makers.

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  Some say their hope is to destabilize the very top in the hopes of stoking a revolution from below.

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  Announcing the strikes yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said

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  that his military was undermining the regime to give Iranians the chance to take fate into their own hands.

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  But despite heavy losses from US-Israeli bombardment, Iran's new rulers are cracking down on dissent.

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