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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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