Signs and portents of Iran's leadership coming apart? Maybe. A report on Sunday from the Jerusalem Post claims that Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has tendered his resignation to the supposedly still above-ground Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. If this is true, it could be a sign that Iran's civil government is coming apart at the seams.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sent a letter to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei's office submitting his resignation, London-based anti-regime outlet Iran International reported on Sunday.
An anonymous official told Iran International that the letter had called out the fact that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had effectively taken over large portions of the government, and that the president and other high-ranking officials had been cut out of vital decision-making.
Pezeshkian, the letter emphasized, was unable to run the government or fulfill his responsibilities under the circumstances, and as such, requested to resign.
Note that this is information from an anonymous source, so don't bet the farm on it. But note the reason given: That the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has taken over to the point where much of the country's civil government is no longer in the loop.
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Anonymous sources told Iran International that the primary source of the differences between Pezeshkian and the head of the IRGC, who is believed to currently hold the lion's share of power in the regime, was "the way the war was managed and its destructive consequences on the people's livelihoods and the country's economy."
Last week, US officials revealed to CBS that Khamenei is hidden in a secret location with little access to the outside world, only reachable through a "labyrinth" of couriers.
Even the highest officials in the Iranian government are unaware of his location and are not able to directly contact him, the officials said.
Again, with the anonymous sources, but then, in Iran, if you're even talking to a foreign journalist, or even an Iranian one, about how the government of that country seems to be circling the drain, it would be in one's best interests to remain anonymous, if one wants to avoid looking at rifles from the wrong side.
Consider, though, what it would mean if the IRGC is in fact taking over larger and larger portions of Iran's everyday functions. These are regime loyalists. These are the goblins that would be most likely to willingly go down fighting, even if it means dragging most of their country down with them. It may well be the job of decades for someone to dig the last remnants of them out of places like the Zagros Mountains. What's more, if the senior IRGC leaders decamp, they being the ones most likely to have golden parachutes stashed away in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands, that would just leave the younger, even more fanatical members to face the music, without even the smallest restraining influence.
Under this scenario, things could get very interesting indeed. The only good thing is that the IRGC doesn't have much left to resist with.
As of this writing, there has been no comment on this report from the White House or the War Department.
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