April 15, 2026
After the Ayatollah: Is This the End of Political Islam?
With the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the severe damage the Islamic Republic has taken, is the regime's long ideological shadow finally fading away?
For almost half a century, the Islamic Republic of Iran has fused revolutionary ideology, clerical authority, and modern statecraft into a system that reshaped the Middle East. With the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the severe damage the Islamic Republic has taken, is the regime's long shadow finally fading away? In Mosaic's April essay, Hussein Aboubakr Mansour argues that it is.
On March 31, Mansour was joined by the Israeli scholar of national security Dan Schueftan and Mosaic's editor Jonathan Silver to disucss his thesis. You can watch the video, or read the transcript, below.
