If the succession process can be carried out as Khamenei intended, it will likely bring a hardliner into power.
Eric Lob
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In the autumn 2007 issue of Survival, Ashley J. Tellis argues that China’s recent anti-satellite weapons test was part of a considered strategy designed to counter the overall military capability of the United States, and that "the United States has no choice but to run an offense–defense arms race, and win."
Source: From Survival

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Ashley J. Tellis was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Michael Krepon
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