•      Sat Sep 7 2024
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Iran’s Succession Crisis Is a Legitimacy Crisis

Abbas Milani STANFORD – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19, was an insubstantial man in an insignificant job. Absolute power in Iran rests not with the president but with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the pretorian force that