As Iran’s hardline leadership doubles down at home and abroad, Tehran’s Friday prayer leader Ahmad Khatami openly calls for Israel to be “eliminated” for peace to exist, the IRGC threatens a crackdown “harsher than January 8” if protests return after an estimated 36,500 people were killed in a two-day massacre, and Operation True Promise 4 escalates with new Iranian missile and drone barrages against US and Israeli targets just as Benjamin Netanyahu vows to create “optimal conditions” for unrest inside Iran and Donald Trump claims Washington is “totally destroying” the Iranian regime.