The newly appointed leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ahmad Vahidi, has emerged as the key powerbroker as the conflict continues.
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Media reports have cast the son of slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a top candidate for supreme leader. A scholar of Iranian politics explains how the succession process has never been free or fair.
The Islamic Republic has a history of targeting minority ethnic groups, especially the Kurds, when it feels threatened.
The sudden death of Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, has also sparked much speculation about the identity of the country’s next supreme leader.
The late President Ebrahim Raisi was supposedly being groomed to succeed an aging Ali Khamenei. The succession is a complex process, more dependent on politics than religion.
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