The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi poses the question of who will succeed him, as well as the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The death of Iranian President Ebrahimi Raisi has left a huge vacancy to fill, and fast. Elections must be held within 50 days, leaving the clerical establishment scrambling to find a suitable replacement.
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This month marks the 45th anniversary of the founding of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Mohsen Sazegara, a non-resident scholar with MEI’s Iran Program, was one of the group’s founders and a member of its first board of commanders. He later became a journalist and a reformist political activist. He was arrested and imprisoned four times before ultimately leaving Iran. He was interviewed by MEI in early May.