Sometimes a sentence from an agency report is enough to understand what has just changed. The sentence was almost lost in these noisy days: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Reuters news agency reported on Saturday, had been taken “to a safe place.” To a secret location somewhere in Iran. Does this mean that Khamenei, the head of state of the Islamic Republic, no longer feels safe in his official residence?

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