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Why didn't he flee? This was a long time coming

His daughter, son-in-law, and the defense minister were also killed, as they were all in his residence at the time.

If he decided to stay for ideological reasons, they would not have been there.

My guess is that they might have misinterpreted the US's demands as starting positions while the US considered them to be final. Who would expect a country that can produce ballistic missiles to willingly give it up? It was a non-starter from the beginning.

It's definitely odd if he was just sitting in his compound. That's a very, well, known place for him. Surely Iran has plenty of secure underground bunkers for leadership to retreat to?

Apparently they hit the compound with 30+ bunker busters. So perhaps he was in a bunker but the bombs still got him

Is there a source for this? I haven’t read any of the specifics on the strike.

Even if he has an underground bunker there, it's still a super well known place. You'd think they'd at least try to hide somewhere.

That's how Nasrallah was eliminated as well.

Fleeing is seen as dishonorable in many parts of the Arab world. Remember the Israeli lies about how Yahya Sinwar dressed in women's clothes and were trying to cross the border to Egypt? In reality he was out in the field with his men killing Israeli soldiers. He died a brave death and Khamenei will now have died one too.

Is the IRGC wearing burkas to evade detection also a fabrication?

Iran isn’t an arab country.

Great, but that is nit-picking---I'm describing a cultural trait present in Iran which makes certain decisions seem irrational to Westerners.

I’m suggesting by referring to Iran as an Arab country, you have demonstrated you know very little about the Middle East.

Perhaps you may want to address my argument instead of nit-picking on that I used "Arab world" instead of "Middle East"?

No. The other poster already did a fine job about pointing out that Islamic terror groups typically use guerilla warfare which frequently involves fleeing, not wearing a uniform, hiding among civilians, etc.

I would like to hear more about the cultural traits that seem irrational to Westerners.

For what it's worth, I agree with you about Sinwar dying while fighting.

Lol what are you talking about, Arabs are great at guerilla warfare, and that involves a ton of fleeing.

> Fleeing is seen as dishonorable

Tell that to the soldiers in the famously almost universally ineffective militaries of almost all the countries in the Arab world.

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