Iran’s supreme leader elevates military veterans willing to confront the US
That leadership believes that Iran’s “weak” response to the killing by the US in 2020 of Qasem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was one reason Trump escalated pressure in his second term, according to Nasr.
The reshuffle reinforces the regime’s “current maximalist and hardline positions,” according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, “including absolute Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz, the removal of US troops from the region, and the development of Iran’s nuclear program.
US President Donald Trump has boasted that his war in Iran has led to a “very rational,” “very different,” and “much more reasonable” leadership in Tehran.
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