Behnam Ben Taleblu
speaker
515 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Sep
Behnam Ben Taleblu’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not capable, but now it's united.
Whatever is left of it, it's sink together or swim together.
But if you keep squeezing...
If you keep the pressure up, that sand, that mud will slip through each piece of the finger and you will have actually choked it off.
We are in that process of choking.
It's a bad analogy, but it just goes to show you that those systems that don't bend
inevitably do break.
And we are right now in the hardening position.
You know, some will say, oh, but now some of these political institutions like the Supreme National Security Council are run by IRGC veterans.
To which I say, yes, that's unfortunate.
That's a reality.
But it's not like pre-war and for the past decade, the past three secretaries of that institution have also not been IRGC veterans.
The war has expedited the phenomenon that we have been seeing in slow motion for Iran for three decades, which is the military ascendancy into so many of these institutions.
You know, the Islamic Republic, as was said by somebody who was supposed to be a future Supreme Leader, and then he died under house arrest, he said, Islamic Republic is neither Islamic nor a republic.
And you see that today in terms of the ascendance of an institution that is neither Islamic nor a republic, and that's the hardline security forces.
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