I'm John Batchel with Bill Rajo, my colleague and co-host Senior Fellow Foundation for Defense of Democracy,

and we're very privileged to have a man who has provided a list of who is the leadership in Tehran.

We're not talking to no one.

We're talking to veterans.

It is accurate to say that there is talk that the supreme leader,

so named, much to buy Hamani, is not participating in these leadership discussions.

Why? Said to be wounded, said to be perhaps disfigured, said to be in a coma, lots of rumors,

no clarity. However, we have not seen him

appear either in person or with a recorded voice since the attack of late February. We do have a

list, however, provided by Jonathan, and I want to go through the list very carefully to understand

who is the strong, who are the who is who are the strong who are the

weak who are the institutional if there is any way to disguise that i mean to present that

jonathan begin the parliamentary speaker mohammad bager kalibab what do we need to know about him

as a member of the leadership well first thing is that he's not part of the

quote-unquote new regime. He's been an insider for since the Iranian-Iraq war. I know the

official title is technically parliament speaker, but he's also a former IRGC commander,

greatly involved in internal repression. He was actually oversaw one of the major crackdowns

where they threw off student activists off of buildings. And now he's leading the negotiations,

which means that he has mastered the different pillars of the regime. And I'm talking about

primarily to internal repression and heartline politics against the United States and Israel,

which is why I made him such a good

candidates to be leading these talks.

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