Lise Doucette

And we do know that last year, even before the 12-day war against Israel, which drew in the United States, Ayatollah Khamenei, knowing that he was in the sights of Israel and America, his implacable enemies, had said to the Assembly of Exers, draw up a list.

So there is no, we don't know exactly who is on the list, but it's believed that Ayatollah Khamenei's son, Moshe Taba, is one of them.

So a list is ready.

So we expect that in a few days' time,

And once the Assembly of Experts, which is about 88 senior clerics, carefully vetted in the same mold, more or less, as Ayatollah Khamenei, once they choose, he will have all the authority and legitimacy, at least of that body.

Now, of course, it comes at a time when the regime is under unprecedented criticism at home and abroad.

There will be those who will be looking not just for cracks in

in the ruling order, but also the collapse.

So they are trying now to project stability and a seamless transition.

Well, Israel has been preparing for this for many, many years.

But for Israel, chaos is a good alternative.

All they want is a weakened Islamic Republic.

And that was the concern of many of the Arab leaders in the Gulf who said to President Trump, don't attack Iran because you will unleash a war.

with unpredictable consequences for all of us across the region and could go all the way to the United States.

Does President Trump have a day after, given what we hear about how the State Department, with all its experts, have been hollowed out, given how we know that the negotiating team, even Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner,

They don't have the bandwidth.

They're negotiating in Ukraine the same time they were trying to negotiate in Gaza and many other, and on the Iranian file as well.

The concern is, no, they haven't looked at the day after.

And President Trump veers, as we've seen in recent weeks, one day he talks about regime change the next day.

He's talking about a nuclear deal.