The who’s who of Iranian players behind the new president
Everyone seems to know Ebrahim Raisi is the Supreme Leader’s man. But how did he get into that tight inner circle?
Muhammad Sahimi is a professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. For the past two decades he has published extensively on Iran’s political developments and its nuclear program. He was a founding lead political analyst for the website PBS/Frontline: Tehran Bureau, and has also published extensively in major websites and print media. He is also the editor and publisher of Iran News and Middle East Reports and produces a weekly commentary for broadcasting that can be watched at http://www.ifttv.com/muhammad-sahimi/.
Everyone seems to know Ebrahim Raisi is the Supreme Leader’s man. But how did he get into that tight inner circle?
Hardliners will take a financial hit too, as they control the black market.
There is a covert war being waged by the U.S. and Israel, but its only accomplishment so far is the alienation of regular Iranians.
The main result of the “maximum pressure” policy to date, aside from the increasing immiseration of the Iranian people, has been the unprecedented degree to which Washington has been isolated from the rest of the world.