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This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague Brendan Weikert, the author of The Shadow

War, Iran's Quest for Supremacy, commenting about in the eventuality that the Ayatollah and the

Council of Experts and the whole cult built around this interpretation of Islamic law

fades away or leaves the power center in Tehran. What comes next?

Brandon looks to the son of the deposed Shah from 1979, 1980.

Brandon Weikert, the Shah, question mark, after the Ayatollah.

More of this tonight.

Well, it's going to be chaos in the initial aftermath.

There will be a radical IRGC, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps types, who will fade away and will form the backbone of an insurgency.

You will have various different political and ethnic groups vying for power.

But I think it's very important to note that last August Netanyahu, the Israeli

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