Mojtaba Khamenei

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and the survivor network in the post-Khamenei power architecture

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf: The Survivor Network in the Post-Khamenei Power Architecture

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Introduction: The Man Who Survived the System   Any serious attempt to map the Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf power network has to begin with a problem that conventional factional analysis cannot explain. There is no formal organisation carrying his name, no stable military bloc publicly answerable to him and no evidence that the senior commanders, security […]

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Supreme National Security Council and the architecture of security power in the Islamic Republic

Inside the Supreme National Security Council: The Architecture of Security Power

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Introduction: The Institution Between the Leader and the State   The Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) serves as the point where the Islamic Republic translates supreme authority into coordinated state action. It brings the presidency, parliament, the judiciary, security ministries, senior military commanders and two representatives of the Supreme Leader into the same constitutional structure.

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Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader and the architecture of power inside the Islamic Republic

The Absent Supreme Leader: The Architecture of Power Under Mojtaba Khamenei

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Introduction: The Leadership Changed. The Machinery Did Not Stop.   On 8 March 2026, Mojtaba Khamenei became Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, formally placing him at the apex of a political system whose constitution concentrates extraordinary military, political and institutional authority in the office of the Leader. For years, the central question surrounding Ali

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Mojtaba Khamenei and the architecture of connective authority

Mojtaba Khamenei and the Architecture of Connective Authority

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Introduction — The Authority the State Never Defined For more than two decades, Mojtaba Khamenei appeared repeatedly at the edges of the Islamic Republic’s most consequential political and security decisions. His name surfaced in accounts of electoral intervention, relations with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the management of political crises and the increasingly restricted circle

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