Beware Iran's Council at Fili: What if the regime goes underground?

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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are riding high nearly one week into the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and many senior Iranian military and security officers are dead. Iranian air defense forces, command and control centers, and naval forces lie in ruins. All of this is very good news.