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Chairman of the Gulf Research Center Dr Abdulaziz Sager reflects on who is leading Iran as mixed signals emerge from officials and military figures during the conflict.
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00:00One of the things that makes this conflict more difficult to sort of understand and to predict what path it
00:06might take is we can't really be sure who is in charge and who's calling the shots in Iran, can
00:12we?
00:12No, this is why we hear a different contradictory statement from different sides in Tehran. We hear the foreign minister
00:22saying one thing, we hear Larry Jani saying something, and now after the funeral we will see the nominated Murshid,
00:29what is he going to say?
00:30I think there has been a lot of, according to the Iranian foreign minister's statement and interview, there has been
00:36some standby order before and after the killing of the Murshid. Those people start implementing whether inside Iran from the
00:46different military cells or outside like in Iraq or in Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:50But at the same time, it is very clear that they are losing a lot of momentum, they are losing
00:56a lot of their missile and launcher capability, they are losing a lot of their internal domestic support because now
01:04we start seeing different ethnicity group in Iran trying to take a lead in the domestic uprise, such as the
01:14Kurds and such as the Belush and the Atherian, you know.
01:20They expanded the war zone, they expanded the war zone, they expanded the war zone, not only to the Gulf
01:23country, they've included Jordan, they included Iraq, also Turkey, Azerbaijan.
01:30So I think that shows there's a lack of wisdom and there's a lack of experience in terms of running
01:38or confrontation in a war zone, what to do.
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