Khamenei negotiated with President Trump in a way that suggested he knew nothing of the current president’s vanity, or contempt for multilateralism. Khamenei and his close advisers behaved, as Robert Conquest used to say, as if controlled secretly by their enemies. They made blunders, such as the decision to sit in a room together for a secret meeting, where they could conveniently be killed in one go, and in the first hours of the war, by an Israeli bombing raid. Israel and the U.S. somehow knew where everyone was, as if they had a listening device implanted in Khamenei’s hearing aid, and trackers installed in the Fitbits, Apple Watches, and artificial pacemakers of every member of the Iranian high command. This intelligence achievement was not only technological—the penetration of devices. It speaks to the basic failure of the Islamic Republic, and of Khamenei himself, to provide a state worth fighting for, rather than selling everyone out. Someone must have been squealing. Khamenei probably appointed the people who betrayed him, and they did so in large part because the regime he represented deserved betrayal.