Coup in Tehran? Hardline IRGC commander Vahidi reportedly seizes power over Iranian regime

“[Ahmad] Vahidi assumed leadership of the IRGC last month, and soon after, experts began to sounding alarm bells: ‘While the egotistical Ghalibaf has played to the limelight, a far more powerful figure is likely to be silently pulling the strings,’ wrote Kasra Aarabi and Saeid Golkar in The Telegraph. They described Vahidi as ‘a Khamenei absolutist,’ who had remained in the shadows due to being ‘the key cog in the regime’s chain of command,’ whose survival is ‘essential to its continuity.’”