Challenges Facing Iran's New Government
Summary
Co-written with Mehdi Khalaji after Iran resumed uranium conversion. Khamenei appears to have unified power, but the authors argue that the real winners are the fundamentalists, who want to steer him, and that the gravest threat to his supremacy comes from the military and security forces, especially the IRGC and Basij, that he brought into politics.
Summary written with AI. The full article belongs to The Washington Institute (PolicyWatch 1022, with Mehdi Khalaji).