What Will Happen When Khamenei Dies?
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,885, January 14, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, is 81 years old and reportedly in declining health. The question of the succession will be decided by the regime’s Assembly of Experts, who will choose the new Supreme Leader following Khamenei’s death. Six individuals have emerged as possible successors.
The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, took office in 1989. He is now 81, and rumors about his declining health have persisted for a decade. Just recently,
Newsweek magazine
reported that Khamenei´s health had deteriorated though that report was based on groundless reports from a journalist connected to the Iranian separatist and terrorist organization Arab Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz.
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Morsi’s Egypt and Ahmadinejad’s Iran: Much Ado Over Next to Nothing
EXECUTIVE SUMMA
RY: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s hosting last week of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signals a potential improvement in ties between Egypt and Iran. It also sends a strong message to the US that Morsi’s Egypt is different than Mubarak’s Egypt. Morsi’s move, however, will backfire, as it endangers Cairo’s receiving much-needed economic aid from the US and Gulf states. Ultimately he needs the US and Gulf countries more than they need him.
Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first elected president, is learning the hard way about how difficult it is to implement personal convictions as head of state. Domestically he was surprised by the resistance put up by the national opposition to his attempts to politically Islamize Egypt. In foreign affairs, his attempts to improve relations with Iran by personally inviting Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Organization of the Islamic
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,039, May 14, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The ongoing explosion of violence by Israel’s Arabs against their Jewish compatriots is not an act of social protest as is wrongly claimed by many commentators but an internal uprising in support of an external enemy a corollary of decades of steady nationalist and religious radicalization, especially since the September of the Oslo “peace process” in September 1993.
This article was published in
Commentary Magazine
ill-
conceived
conclusions and recommendations of the Orr Commission, appointed by PM Barak to explore the roots of the October 2000 violence wrought by the Israeli Arabs in support of Yasser Arafat’s freshly-waged war of terror (euphemized as “
Iran Might Purge Its Intelligence and Counterintelligence Community
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,023, May 13, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Mohsen Rezaee, a high-ranking official of the Islamic Republic in Iran, has admitted that top-secret Iranian nuclear documents were stolen in a raid of a Tehran warehouse by Israeli operatives in 2018 a raid the regime had denied ever occurred. Rezaee is calling for a purge of the Iranian intelligence and counterintelligence community, which could result in Iranian intelligence operatives fleeing the country or dying in “accidents.”
The history of intelligence and counterintelligence (I&C) is riddled with
failures, some of which have had horrendous consequences. There is, however, a major difference between an I&C failure and a compromised I&C community. In the past year alone, the Islamic Republic in Iran has suffered multiple serious I&C failures: the July 2020
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