BOOT: “I — I think we just don’t know enough about the power structure in Iran to know how things will play out. And what’s true today may not be true in the near future. I think it’s a fluid situation, but it’s clear that other figures within the regime, like Ali Larijani and others, exercise considerable power. We’ll see how much power the new Supreme Leader can accumulate. But whatever happens, this is clearly a rebuke of President Trump, who was claiming that he was going to select the new leader. And obviously, this is not the person that Trump would have selected. But what it indicates is that you have regime continuity, and you have a hardliner who in some ways could very well turn out to be even more threatening than his father. Because, remember, for all the terrible things that Ayatollah Khamenei, his father, did, he never pressed forward with Iran’s nuclear program.”
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Max Boot: Khamenei’s Son Being Named the New Supreme Leader of Iran Is ‘Clearly a Rebuke of President Trump’‘At least in the short term, it’s not working out in a way that President Trump hoped or expected’News & PoliticsEXCERPT:BOOT: “I — I think we just don’t know enough about the power structure in Iran to know how things will play out. And what’s true today may not be true in the near future. I think it’s a fluid situation, but it’s clear that other figures within the regime, like Ali Larijani and others, exercise considerable power. We’ll see how much power the new Supreme Leader can accumulate. But whatever happens, this is clearly a rebuke of President Trump, who was claiming that he was going to select the new leader. And obviously, this is not the person that Trump would have selected. But what it indicates is that you have regime continuity, and you have a hardliner who in some ways could very well turn out to be even more threatening than his father. Because, remember, for all the terrible things that Ayatollah Khamenei, his father, did, he never pressed forward with Iran’s nuclear program.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview
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