Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr have outlined a remade Islamic Republic emerging from the unprovoked war by Israel and the United States, respectively, President Donald Trump. A war out of aggression in violation of international law.
The Islamic Republic has already undergone dramatic molt. While Trump is still bragging, in interviews (see an especially ridiculos on Pod Force One), that Irans first, second and maybe third line of leaders are gone (after the “decapitation” strike on 28 February), so is its navy, its airforce, etc., Bajoghli and Nasr focus on remarkable lessons learned after the first US/Israeli attack in June last year which led to decentralizing from Tehran to provincial capitals its many executive decisions on trade, agriculture, and management of economic and social services from Tehran to provincial capitals. (Remember: last autumn, the water crisis had sparked the idea already to relocate the entire capital to the underdeveloped Makran region on the southern coast along the Gulf of Oman.)
While official statements and intelligence briefings indicate that approximately 40 senior Iranian leaders and security officials were killed in the strikes including the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Iran managed to keep its governing institutions more or less intact. Together with nominating the surviving son of the Ayatollah, Mojtaba, his successor, a new generation took charge, all having been fighting in the war with Iraq in the 1980. The new leadership now is comprised of current or former members of the Revolutionary Guards.
Continue reading
You must be logged in to post a comment.