Israel’s Killing of Ali Larijani Could Allow Military to Tighten Grip on Iran

Mr. [Ali] Larijani’s killing elevates even further Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament and a former Revolutionary Guards commander who serves as a link between Mojtaba Khamenei, the state bureaucracy and the Guards, said [UANI Senior Advisor] Saeid Golkar, a professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga who studies Iran’s security forces. “He’s going to continue the war,” Mr. Golkar said. “They believe they are going to create another Vietnam War for the United States.”