India, March 30 -- It started at the very top when, February 28, the US-Israel coordinated strikes killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Several senior Iranian leaders have since died in such attacks in the war now in its second month.

The US and Israel have carried out systematic targeting of Iran's political and military leadership, even as Donald Trump insists he wants to talk and Iran remains defiant. Iran has also appointed replacements, and said the system is not person-centric.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, was killed on Day 1 of the US-Israeli airstrikes, at his residential compound in Tehran. He had ruled Iran since 1989, consolidating power through the security apparatus an...