PREVIEW: #IRAN: RAISI: Conversation with Behnam ben Taleblu of FDD re the fact that the president of Iran is a tool for the Supreme Leader to use, not a decision maker. More later.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 20 May 2024
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| 0:30.0 | This is John Batchelor. What follows is a conversation with Ben and |
| 0:34.0 | Ben-Taleboo, the Foundation for the Defense of democracies, discussing the |
| 0:38.0 | death of Raise, Abraham Raise, the President of Iran, and what is likely to follow within 50 days there'll be an election, |
| 0:47.7 | and then whoever is chosen, and there's a list that is not very long names that we've seen before. Whoever is chosen, |
| 0:56.4 | will he be a decision-maker? And Benham answers definitively not. He thinks of it as a tool of |
| 1:02.4 | the Supreme Leader. |
| 1:03.2 | His Ben and Ben Taliblu on how Raise served his Supreme Leader and how the replacement |
| 1:10.2 | of Raise will serve the Supreme Leader. More of this tonight. Thank you. |
| 1:16.1 | At this point in time I believe not or the definition of shared might be akin to a |
| 1:21.8 | kindergarten's definition of sharing a cookie with someone that they |
| 1:25.2 | may not necessarily like. They're not inclined to give much the Supreme Leader as well |
| 1:29.8 | as the institutions behind him, his office, the intelligence apparatus, as well as the |
| 1:34.2 | IRGC aren't quite keen on engaging in more of this power sharing. |
| 1:38.0 | So I think you're likely going to have the president continue to be a figure ahead and |
| 1:42.0 | more of an implementer of the |
| 1:43.7 | will of the Supreme Leader rather than its challenge to do it. |
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