{"id":5611,"date":"2026-03-23T02:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/whos-left-running-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:35:21","slug":"whos-left-running-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/whos-left-running-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s left running Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Many of Tehran\u2019s top leaders \u2013 from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to senior security figures \u2013 have been assassinated by the United States and Israel,<\/p>\n<p>US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu have framed the killings as victories in their war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>But Iran says its governance structure is designed to withstand such blows.<\/p>\n<p>And that means the loss of any individual should not lead to the downfall of the system.<\/p>\n<p>But how does this unique leadership structure work?<\/p>\n<p>Who is keeping the government running, and how?<\/p>\n<p>And what does it mean for the ongoing war?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> James Bays<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hamid Reza Gholamzadeh \u2013 director of House of Diplomacy, a think tank<\/p>\n<p>Ali Vaez \u2013 director of the Iran Project at the International Crisis Group<\/p>\n<p>Tim Ripley \u2013 defence analyst and editor of Defence Eye<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of Tehran\u2019s top leaders \u2013 from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to senior security figures \u2013 have been assassinated by the United States and Israel, US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu have framed the killings as victories in their war on Iran. But Iran says its governance structure is designed to withstand such &#8230; <a title=\"Who\u2019s left running Iran?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/whos-left-running-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Who\u2019s left running Iran?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}