prediction
He says it is possible that the Revolutionary Guard killed President Ibrahim Raisi because Raisi was preventing war.
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Raisi
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The interview starts in Venezuela and ends in Chinese classrooms, but Jiang treats the whole route as one argument about empire under strain: Washington uses frontier pressure to force China into carrying the American...
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prediction
Jiang says Raisi was widely expected to become supreme leader after Khamenei, and that if Raisi became Ayatollah he could shift major policy in Iran.
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diagnosis
Jiang suspects that politicians such as Raisi urged patience and restraint after Soleimani's killing and the April 2024 Damascus strike, while the IRGC wanted vengeance and war.
model
Jiang's beneficiary analysis says the IRGC gains from Raisi's death because Raisi as supreme leader would likely challenge its authority, while Mojtaba Khamenei's accession would preserve its monopoly of power.
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"...Revolutionary Guard Corps killed last week the president of Iran, Ibrahim Raisi, because he was preventing war, okay?"
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"Everyone agreed that Abraham Raisi would most likely become supreme leader. The supreme leader of Iran when the current Ayatollah Khamenei died, okay? So..."
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"...war. But we can suspect that it was the politicians like Raisi who basically said, no guys, let's be patient."
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"...Corps was, let's just go to war. And again, I'm sure Raisi and his team said to them. Guys, we cannot beat the United..."
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"...theory and we examine who would benefit from the death of Raisi, this group of people, the Revolutionary Guard Corps, would most benefit. Because..."
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"...strategic cooperation pact with Iran. This had been worked on with Raisi. Raisi dies. Pazeshkian comes in. Zarif come in. And magically that deal..."
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"...Iran like javad Zarif uh Rouhani the past president before uh raisi uh and now poseshkin they've always had like this inclination that you..."
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"...about the question, how and why did the Iranian president, Ibrahim Raisi, die? Okay, so when you do history or when you do analysis..."
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"...be the next Ayatollah. The first contender, the most likely, is Raisi. The second contender is actually Khamenei's son, Moshtaba Khamenei. Okay? So with..."
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"...Okay. So Celine asked a great question. What changes now that Raisi is dead? Okay?"
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"...president, will become the new president. And this is important because Raisi does not come from the Revolutionary Guard Corps. He comes from the..."
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"...way. Just because these things might happen. Does not mean that. Raisi was killed by the Revolutionary Guard Corp. Okay? Do you understand? But..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: the Iran war that looks like American domination is the moment the United States becomes trapped, because geography, supply, domestic politics, sunk cost, and nuclear deterrence...
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