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Iran: Elite Paralysis and Systemic Decay
With the 47th anniversary of its founding just around the corner, the Islamic Republic of Iran is spiraling deeper into systemic instability. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for the past 36 years, who turns 87 in April, is ailing and politically weakened. Delicate efforts to manage succession have been thrown off course by an […] The post Iran: Elite Paralysis and Systemic Decay appeared first on Geopolitical Futures.
Ali Khamenei will reach the age of 87 in April. He has been the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic since 1989 and has for more than three decades embodied the continuity of a political system built on religious authority, distrust of the West and the projection of regional power. During these years, he has never left Iranian territory, ruling from Tehran a country subject to international sanctions, but has long managed to make himself inevi…
Iran is entering a very serious crisis that could be part of a process of adjusting its model of religious governance rather than part of a collapse trajectory."The echoes that come to us from Iran indicate a gradual shift in clerical legitimacy as a central organizing principle towards a more openly secure order," says our columnist Malek Baroudji, who, from Beirut, closely follows the evolution of the situation in Tehran. The twelve days of Is…
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