Khamenei’s passing creates a vacuum where the IRGC seeks total control, while reformists hope to trade military aggression for economic relief and survival.
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Khamenei’s passing creates a vacuum where the IRGC seeks total control, while reformists hope to trade military aggression for economic relief and survival.
Trump’s war gifts Iran’s hardliners: conflict empowers confrontational actors, marginalizes reformists, ordinary people suffer.
Iran’s reformists, marginalized by repression, are presenting themselves as a potential political alternative amid the regime’s legitimacy crisis.