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Any new Ayatollah with an independent power base would need to reduce IRGC power, while Mojtaba Khamenei would allow the IRGC to preserve its economic and political monopoly.
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Power Base
Any new Ayatollah with an independent power base would need to reduce IRGC power, while Mojtaba Khamenei would allow the IRGC to preserve its economic and political monopoly.
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Jiang says any new leader would see the IRGC as a problem because it has too much power, creates overseas tension, and is too fanatical.
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"...sense to you guys? Because he needs to establish his own power base. And the Revolutionary Guard Corps was loyal to the current... He's......"
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"Now, if... But if the current leader's son, Moshtaba Khomeini, were to become the new Ayatollah, then things would stay the same. And the..."
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"Is trick America into invading Iran. And then America would lose for sure. Okay? And that is something that we will discuss next week...."
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"Because they have too much power. And they are creating too much tension. Overseas. And they are too fanatical. Okay? And so. It is..."
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"...to politically maneuver to be the new king, okay? And his power base is in a place called Hebron, or in the south, the..."
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"...Guard Corps. He comes from the judiciary. Okay? That's a different power base. But Mohammad Makbar comes from the Revolutionary Guard Corps. So he..."
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