What Government Might Replace the Ayatollah – Possibly a New Ayatollah

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a paramilitary force that swears allegiance to the ayatollah, may be the key to Iran’s fate. Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is dead, as are many of the country’s top leaders. However, there is still a leadership structure in place, and the regime has not yet fallen. Predicting what comes next is difficult because multiple factions are in play. Those...