With the 47th anniversary of its founding just around the corner, the Islamic Republic of Iran is spiraling deeper into systemic instability. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for the past 36 years, who turns 87 in April, is ailing and politically weakened. Delicate efforts to manage succession have been thrown off course by an […]
Iran: Elite Paralysis and Systemic Decay
Protests, institutional gridlock and a degraded IRGC are converging around the critical question of what comes after Khamenei.
