Mojtaba Khamenei: stooge of the Revolutionary Guards

Mojtaba Khamenei: stooge of the Revolutionary Guards

A theory currently making the rounds is that the war has made the Islamic Republic “more hardline” — with proponents pointing to the consolidation of power by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and the succession of Mojtaba Khamenei. All this, it is argued, might have been avoided had the US and Israel not launched their war. Khamenei Sr may have died peacefully in his bed, and the Islamic Republic might have made a liberal turn with