Look for TACO to be TACO
Telling 9 million people to evacuate Tehran "immediately" cannot be interpreted as anything other than a threat of an imminent nuclear attack.
Then in a threat to Ali Khamenei: "Supreme Leader is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now.”
TACO will do neither. Even in his muddled mind he knows this is not a situation that calls for nuclear war. Besides it's not good for his businesses or his grifting. He will not take out Khamenei because that would make him a target of other States. He knows while he is President no individual or radical group will be able to assassinate him. But a belligerent State intelligence community probably could.
So rest easy TACO will chicken out as usual.
Then in a threat to Ali Khamenei: "Supreme Leader is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now.”
TACO will do neither. Even in his muddled mind he knows this is not a situation that calls for nuclear war. Besides it's not good for his businesses or his grifting. He will not take out Khamenei because that would make him a target of other States. He knows while he is President no individual or radical group will be able to assassinate him. But a belligerent State intelligence community probably could.
So rest easy TACO will chicken out as usual.
