The killing of Ali Khamenei in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes has thrust Iran into uncharted territory. With its supreme leader gone, dozens of senior officials dead, and a war now spreading across the region, the Islamic Republic faces the most serious crisis in its history. A new supreme leader has been named, Khamenei’s own son, but the regime’s fractured power centers, a devastated military, and a population that overwhelmingly rejected the system long before the bombs fell raise urgent questions about what comes next. Can the Islamic Republic survive in any recognizable form? Will the competing factions inside the regime hold together or tear the country apart? And what does a post-Khamenei Iran mean for the region and for the United States?
In this special edition of Global Insights, we revisit a conversation recorded a few weeks before the strikes and now reads as a roadmap to the current crisis. Our speaker is Dr. Arash Azizi, Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at Yale University, Contributing Writer at the Atlantic, and a leading expert on Iranian history and political movements.
Music by Sergii Pavkin from Pixabay.
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