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Ali Asghar Hejazi
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Schrödinger's spymaster no more. For three decades Ali Asghar Hejazi ran security and intelligence inside the Supreme Leader's office: the man whose job was to keep Khamenei's location secret. On 5 March he testified to the dead leader's will against the son's succession, per Iran International; on 6 March Israeli media reported him killed in a strike on an underground Tehran compound; on 9 March a joint loyalty message surfaced over his name; on 13 March Iran International reported him pushing to replace the new leader with a council. Then four months of nothing, until 10 July: photographed at the burial procession in Mashhad. Alive. No official account names his post. Dead, hiding, or fled? The answer arrived: none of the above. The new question is what he runs now. THE JULY DOSSIER: who's left, file 5/15 (updated).