A specialist in Iranian geopolitics has refuted comments made by US President Donald Trump claiming that Tehran’s administration is “severely divided.”
Mehran Kamrava, a professor at Georgetown University Qatar, characterized the President’s social media post as a “significant misunderstanding of the Iranian leadership’s stance and situation.”
Despite the lack of a confirmed mention of the new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei after the assassination of his father and former leader Ali Khamenei, Kamrava feels the leadership continues to be tightly connected.
“I believe we have witnessed significant unity among the leadership.” The current supreme leader is not as dominant as his predecessor, his father, yet the leadership has remained fairly united,” he shared with Xenix News Becky Anderson.
President Trump referred to the Iranian government as “seriously fractured” in a Truth Social post following the White House’s submission of a list of points they sought agreement on from the Iranians, yet received no reply.
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