Iran can absorb shock if Raisi unable to carry out presidential duties: Marwan Bishara
May 20, 2024
In the hypothetical case where Iran’s President Ibrahim Raisi was incapacitated due to the crash, Al Jazeera’s senior political
May 20, 2024
In the hypothetical case where Iran’s President Ibrahim Raisi was incapacitated due to the crash, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says the country’s political system could absorb such a “shock”.
“Clearly, this is a grave incident, and having the president and the foreign minister together in the same helicopter is not exactly the best of signs,” he said.
“But be that as it may, Iran, since its Islamic revolution in 1979 … has proved to be more than capable of taking all sorts of shots [against it], especially when it comes to political leaders.”
Moreover, Bishara said it was important to underline that in Iran “it was not a typical sort of totalitarian system or a dictatorship where one man goes, the entire system collapses”.
“There is a really strong elite that is governing in Iran, but there’s also a strong system in Iran that’s developing and evolving over the past four decades in a way where there are checks and balances,” he noted.
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