France 24 · Mar 1, 2026 · Collected from RSS
Mehran Kamrava, Professor of Governement, Georgetown University Qatar, is with us.
Rouzbeh Parsi, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Lunds University, is our guest.
Ali Vaez, Director or Iran Project & Senior Advisor at the International Crisis Group, is with us.
The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the latest US-Israeli strikes on the country has triggered not only a leadership vacuum but also a high-stakes test of whether the Islamic Republic’s system can endure without the man who dominated it for nearly four decades. Analysts said the immediate signs point less to collapse than to hardening continuity, at least for now, as security institutions close ranks, the battlefield expands and signs of internal rupture remain...
While the US bets on a swift regime collapse, analysts warn the power vacuum could birth a more aggressive leadership.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in a joint Israeli–US strike on Iran, a development that plunges the future of the Islamic Republic into uncertainty and heightens fears of wider regional instability. FRANCE 24 spoke with former NATO vice chief-of-staff Michel Yakovleff about what that could mean for the country's future.
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