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Who’s really running Iran? | The Economist
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August 6, 2026
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6:05Now PlayingIran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, may have survived deadly US-Israeli strikes, but the system around him is under existential pressure. As the US-Iran war continues to drag on, the two sides are trapped in a cycle of fighting and half-baked attempts at diplomacy.
To understand what’s holding up a resolution, The Economist’s geopolitics editor, David Rennie, pulls back the curtain of the Iranian regime. Renowned Iran watchers, Dr Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa programme at the think-tank Chatham House, and Sir Simon Gass, Britain’s ambassador to Iran from 2009 to 2011, join him to discuss what is really happening inside Iran.
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