Ahman Vahidi and the IRGC appears to have control of the Iranian government, at least for now.



And for the X-less:

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๐ˆ๐‘๐†๐‚ ๐‚๐Ž๐Œ๐Œ๐€๐๐ƒ๐„๐‘ ๐€๐‡๐Œ๐€๐ƒ ๐•๐€๐‡๐ˆ๐ƒ๐ˆ ๐‡๐€๐’ ๐’๐„๐ˆ๐™๐„๐ƒ ๐‚๐Ž๐๐“๐‘๐Ž๐‹ ๐Ž๐… ๐ˆ๐‘๐€๐โ€™๐’ ๐Œ๐ˆ๐‹๐ˆ๐“๐€๐‘๐˜ ๐€๐๐ƒ ๐๐Ž๐‹๐ˆ๐“๐ˆ๐‚๐€๐‹ ๐ƒ๐„๐‚๐ˆ๐’๐ˆ๐Ž๐-๐Œ๐€๐Š๐ˆ๐๐†

The Institute for the Study of War reports that IRGC Commander Major General Ahmad Vahidi and his inner circle have ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ over not only Iranโ€™s military response but its ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง-๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  as well.

This confirms what the world watched in real time: Foreign Minister Araghchi announced the Strait was open, and ๐•๐š๐ก๐ข๐๐ขโ€™๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐‘๐†๐‚ ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ฎ๐ญ, fired on oil tankers, and called Araghchi an โ€œidiotโ€ on state media.

The diplomats have been sidelined. The IRGC is running the show. And ๐•๐š๐ก๐ข๐๐ขโ€”๐š ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ฌ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐”๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ’ ๐€๐Œ๐ˆ๐€ ๐›๐จ๐ฆ๐›๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ง ๐€๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐šโ€”is now the one making calls on war and peace.

๐ˆ๐ซ๐š๐งโ€™๐ฌ โ€œ๐œ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐งโ€ ๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฆ๐š๐ฌ๐ค. ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ฌ๐ค ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿโ€”๐š๐ง๐ ๐š ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ.


Onward and upward,
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