I'm Tom Bachelor with Jonathan Schanzer, Vice President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

The helicopter that crashed in the northwestern part of Iran took the life of the

president, Mr. Rouhani, and the foreign minister and other dignitaries. However, what

we're learning is that the leadership in Tehran is

is rocked by what happened and with an obvious constitutional

requirement to hold an election in 50 days, there looks to be

a lot of musical chairs going on in Tehran.

Why?

And Jonathan, I'm going to guess, Rouhani was mentioned as a possible successor for the Supreme Leader.

Now that he's gone, that leaves one other named successor possibility which should be much to buy, how many, the son of the Supreme Leader.

And that alone shouldn't upset people, but they clearly are rocked by this.

Why, Jonathan, what, the seremlier makes all the decisions.

Rohani was a tool he used effectively.

Why are they, why are they acting so out of order?

Sorry, just one quick correction, John.

It's not Rouhani.

That's the old president.

We're talking about Ibrahim Raizi.

I confused the ours, excuse me.

Oh, I get that way too.

So look, Raize was the hard line as they call it. I mean I don't make much of a distinction

between what they call hardliners and pragmatists, but he did appear to be the air apparent.

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