Nora Jones

And the very fact that he was close to the Revolutionary Guards, I don't think says that he's more hawkish or more militant.

So we really don't know much.

He's not written much.

He doesn't have a high kind of religious credibility.

He's not an Ayatollah.

And so it's a sort of a wild guess that what he would do after this.

And people around him, now that most of the old guards of the Revolutionary Guards are assassinated,

the new younger generation.

I mean, the old guard, they were all veterans of the Iran-Iraq war, and they learned about strategy of war in the fields.

And they're very sort of well-trained in the field kind of revolutionary commanders.

But the new generation has different kind of experience.

They're mostly

veterans of war in Syria and in Iraq of post 2003.

And they have a different kind of understanding of war fighting.

So they're used to more asymmetric warfare because they fought the United States.

That's exactly the point, that the old guard was a symmetrical, I mean, very conventional kind of warfare, which was Iran-Iraq war was the longest conventional warfare of 20th century for eight years.

with half a million people killed.

But these are a new generation of people who are basically coming out of that kind of asymmetrical warfare and very well versed, so to speak, of designing and strategizing in that kind of war.

And also very different kind of political framing of war.

So how they would behave, how do they rethink their position that they're now in the position of decision-making in the revolutionary cause is yet to be seen.