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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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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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This is John Batchelor. What follows is a conversation with Ben and

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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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