I think in the general administration of the country and
the sort
of the strategic overview, I don't think a huge amount
will change.
I mean, as has been noted,
you know, Raisi was not really driving that.
He was an executor really for what the Supreme Leader
wanted to be done.
So what they'll be struggling to find,
of course is someone who they think is as loyal
and reliable for the system as Raisi was In terms
of his general competence,
I mean he was he was widely criticized from
all sides of the spectrum in interestingly,
even hardliners didn't think he was as as as good
at administrators as as might have been.
So there is the possibility of course that they may
be able to find someone who's as loyal and you
know even moderately more competent in trying to
in running the country. But you know,
this will be something that they'll now have to go
out
and look for and obviously for the
for the system itself. I think it's the first time
now and I think 40 years or so since a
a sitting president has died in,
in office. But also as you say,
with the foreign minister. Yeah.
And running the country and its economy is no small
order given the state of
of play in Iran at present.
So whoever is that next president has a big job
on their hands.
But as you rightly point out,
this is not the most powerful position in the country.
That is the supreme leader's position and the sort of
the security infrastructure who
effectively, you know, let's be quite clear,
run national security and the ideological direction of this country.
So let's just concentrate there for a moment.
I think what you're saying here,
it's safe to assume there will be no change to
the ideological direction of this country nor will the
loss of these two men,
the president and the foreign minister,
have a huge impact on Iran's influence around the region
and the wider world, correct.
Yes. I mean I don't think it'll it'll have a
significant impact in in either of those areas because these
are run by by,
you know, the IRGC in a in a broad sense.
Certainly the foreign policy and also obviously the strategic direction
of the country is directed by the Supreme leader in
his office.
I think, I think the the more serious thing for
the regime is,
is the questions that will be asked by people about
how this happened.
I mean why they were travelling,
as has been said, in such aged sort of equipment,
you know, the helicopters, why they were travelling actually in
the fog in the mountainous area.
I mean these sort of things are going to be
rife for conspiracy theories in Iran,
as you know, which don't need much to get going.
So people will start to ask questions about how this
happened and what it means actually about
the way in which the country operates,
what the state of its economy is,
what the state of the administration is.
So I think a lot of these things will start
to come out.
And you're already We're seeing things on social media and
other sources in Iran where people are beginning to question
what this tells us about the Islamic Republic itself and
its current and its current situation.