Letter From Tehran: Iran’s New Hard-Liners | Foreign Affairs

Letter From Tehran: Iran’s New Hard-Liners | Foreign Affairs.

A useful advanced primer on the internal power struggles of the Iranian regime, detailing a recent takeover of cabinet posts and critical industries by Revolutionary Guards’ “new Right” fundamentalists, who apparently control $12 billion a year smuggling networks which feed directly off Iran’s unchecked pariah status. By this analysis, it’s time to roll up Iran’s carpet of bullshit and pull it out from under the regime. There are no pragmatists or real-politikers in Iranian government now, and they are not about  to materialize, short of highly unlikely regime change. Marg bar diktator!

Small side note: how did a guy named Jerry Guo (the article’s author) end up as an I-Banking analyst in Tehran, of all places? Sounds slightly fishy, methinks.