Is real power in the Islamic Republic still in the hands of the clergy, or has it been transferred to the generation of security commanders and Islamist guerrillas before the revolution?

In an interview with “Mehrzad Borujerdi,” a researcher and professor of political science, we discussed his latest article in The New York Times. The article, by revisiting the account of the assassination of his father on the eve of the 1979 Revolution, examines the roots of the formation of the power structure in the Islamic Republic, the role of the group “Mansuron,” the position of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and the logic of decision-making and the survival of this system. In this interview, we asked him why, after five decades of silence about this part of his personal and political history, he decided to publish this account, and what picture this re-reading of the events offers of the path through which power took shape in the Islamic Republic. You can watch the full interview on IranWire Television.