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Raisi's views echoed Khamenei's on every major topic and he enacted the leader's policies aimed at entrenching clerical power

This month marks the 45th anniversary of the founding of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Mohsen Sazegara, a non-resident scholar with MEI’s Iran Program, was one of the group’s founders and a member of its first board of commanders. He later became a journalist and a reformist political activist. He was arrested and imprisoned four times before ultimately leaving Iran. He was interviewed by MEI in early May.

This episode will take us to the city of Birjand, which is famous as the city of science.

Analysis: The visit came amid the backdrop of mounting regional tensions and several months after Pakistan and Iran launched strikes on each other's territory.

More than six months in, the war in Gaza seems to have no end in sight, even as conditions on the ground for Palestinian civilians have grown catastrophic. Tensions have steadily risen all across the region since Israel invaded the Gaza Strip following Hamas’ horrific Oct. 7 attack. The Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah exchange fire along the Israeli-Lebanese border on a near-daily basis, killing dozens of civilians and raising fears that a northern front could open at any time.