If Raisi is removed from the succession path, Jiang says Mojtaba Khamenei becomes more likely to succeed, but father-to-son leadership would produce a legitimacy crisis because Iran's revolution was against monarchy.
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Iranian Revolution
If Raisi is removed from the succession path, Jiang says Mojtaba Khamenei becomes more likely to succeed, but father-to-son leadership would produce a legitimacy crisis because Iran's revolution was against monarchy.
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The speaker describes the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution as a political earthquake that overturned the prior separation of religion and politics and replaced monarchy with an Islamic Republic.
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