IRAN: Leadership 'more divided than ever,' analyst says: Via Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times.

In a new commentary, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic & International Studies think tank in Washington, D.C., considers Iran’s political future after today’s address by the nation’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“Khamenei has always had uncertain credentials as a religious scholar and he now has uncertain credibility as a leader. Everyone in Iran, the Middle East, and the world now has reason to question the legitimacy of every element of Iran's leadership and the Iranian revolution. The Iranian leadership now has to realize that it is more divided than was ever apparent before and that Iran's people and the world know it.”

Cordesman’s full commentary follows.
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