About this episode

The episode discusses the resilience of the Iranian regime amidst ongoing military actions and the implications for political change.

The U.S.-Israeli air campaign has entered its second week, and Washington is looking to declare victory. But the Islamic Republic is intact, a successor is in place, and Iran's strategic calculus is already oriented toward reconstitution. On March 10, Wikistrat invited expert Ahmad Hashemi to assess the regime's wartime resilience, the hereditary succession, the failure of the opposition, and why no amount of bombing will produce the political transformation that Washington and Jerusalem expect

People in this episode

Guest: Ahmad Hashemi

Topics covered

• Iranian society
• U.S.-Israeli air campaign
• regime resilience
• political transformation
• opposition failure

Keywords

• Iran
• U.S.-Israeli air campaign
• Ahmad Hashemi
• regime resilience
• political transformation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Islamic Republic

Places: Iran, Washington, Jerusalem

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