Analyst Trita Parsi discusses the impact of the officials’ deaths on the future of Iran’s policies.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian were killed on Sunday in a helicopter crash along with several other officials and crew. Wreckage of the helicopter was found early Monday in a mountainous region of the country’s northwest following an overnight search in blizzard conditions. Raisi was returning from inaugurating a new dam built jointly with Azerbaijan along the two countries’ border.
For more, we’re joined in Washington, D.C., by Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.If you can just respond to what has taken place in Iran? Talk about the death of the president and the foreign minister and what this means.This is, of course, a major event in Iran. Both the president and the foreign ministers and several others have died.
But if we were to take a look at what are the main policies that he’s been driven, it’s really difficult to identify them. Imagine if this had happened to Hassan Rouhani, the previous president, during the height of the nuclear negotiations, for instance. It would have thrown a major wrench into those negotiations, precisely because Rouhani was such a strong driving force for resolving the nuclear issue diplomatically.
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