The US president claims that a ‘regime transformation’ has taken place in Tehran, with hawks replaced by less radical figures. But analysts tell Maira Butt that the picture unfolding on the ground is very different
It’s more like hardliners being replaced with even harder hardliners, who often have personal reasons to be hardliners. Mojtaba Khamenei witnessed his Wife and daughter being murdered in an airstrike. He is not going to be thrilled about the US
I skimmed the article and did not find one name of a moderate who was killed…anybody?
It’s more like hardliners being replaced with even harder hardliners, who often have personal reasons to be hardliners. Mojtaba Khamenei witnessed his Wife and daughter being murdered in an airstrike. He is not going to be thrilled about the US
And his father.
You are speaking of harderliners aren’t you
Harderliner
And this is in comparison to the more moderate hardliners who killed ~40,000 protestors a few months back?
Yes.
These people would have killed 50k
I don’t think desire or intent was the limiting factor in the 40k number
They were moderates
I think so. The first link suggests it would have more info on that topic, but it doesn’t.