May 19, 2022

Speaker: Saeid Golkar

Ayatollah Khamenei is replacing the Islamic Republic's old cohort of specialists with newly indoctrinated technocrats, preparing the regime for a swift succession. In addition, reconfiguration of political elites is shifting the power equilibrium in the Islamic Republic, facilitating greater coordination between deep and visible states.

Saeid Golkar is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Concurrently, he is a non-resident Senior Fellow on Middle East Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) and The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in the UK.

The Reconfiguration of Iran's Political Elite: Rising Indoctrinated Technocrats with Saeid Golkar

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The Reconfiguration of Iran's Political Elite: Rising Indoctrinated Technocrats with Saeid Golkar

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