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For more than three decades, the Bayt-e Rahbari (also referred to as the Bayt), has been the single most important entity in the Islamic Republic’s policymaking

Despite its centrality and frequent references by Iranian observers, there is remarkably little public information about this secretive and complex institution and relatively little scholarly attention to it.

Economically, the Bayt controls almost all aspects of Iran's economy. Starting in 2003, the Bayt began to play an active political role in engineering election outcomes, not least facilitating Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rise to the presidency two years later

The Bayt has been intentionally organized and structured like a dark and tangled web, complex in design and opaque in its workings.

While some observers interpreted Khamenei’s limited public presence after the 12-day war with Israel as a sign of a looming power vacuum, in reality, it underscored something very different. The Bayt ensures that the supreme leader’s dominance is not dependent on his physical presence.

This structure — layered, opaque, and entrenched — makes the Islamic Republic uniquely resilient to external and internal shocks. It's not Khamenei the man, but the Bayt as an institution, that provides durability and continuity.

For any meaningful change to occur in the Islamic Republic—including regime change—the Bayt and its apparatus must be significantly weakened

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 55 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah ain't gonna click that link with such a highly propagandized url.

[–] NomNom@feddit.uk -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

You know, if the President of this organization told me "We need to bomb Iran", I would not listen to him. Their goal is to stop Iran from obtaining nukes, by any means necessary. It's literally their name.

But that doesn't mean everything they publish is total non-sense.

They actually have very knowledgeable people who write interesting reports. You just need to keep a critical eye.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Like I'm not going to read The Heritage Foundation just because they might have an article that has some ground in reality, I'm not going to consume this content either.

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 24 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Why is it that "United Against Nuclear Iran" is the ONLY site on the internet to mention The Bayt? Both Fox and Twitter both link back to your site. Why no corroborating evidence?

For that matter, while your blurb above sounds menacing and sinister, what actually is it?

You're very heavy on the atmosphere and the doom peddling, but super light on any details as to why this is such a huge deal, and since this entire war is a massive lie with two shady governments wagging a dog as hard as they fucking can to distract from genocide and pedophilia, I'm gonna need more than just "cause we say so!"

[–] DandomRude@piefed.social 21 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well, that may be one of the countless reasons why the US, under reasonably sensible leadership, has not attempted to attack Iran. Now it has come to pass because a pedophile, threatened by his heinous deeds catching up with him, decided to try it anyway in order to distract from the crimes he and his degenerate crew are committing - in open violation of international law as well as US law. He and his accomplices in Israel apparently trust that the US citizens will let him get away with it unpunished. How about it, US citizens - is that the case? Is there really no justice left in your country?

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm a MAGA Voter who voted for Trump because I wanted PEACE and I DONT Agree with what he's doing BUT I will Vote for Him for a Third term because he's just a Normal Pedophile like all of Us!

[–] DandomRude@piefed.social 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Yes, and it's also great that the regime is setting up a secret police force with ICE that has a budget equivalent to the military spending of a medium-sized country...

Seriously, how can any reasonably rational person accept this? Why doesn't the population paralyze the country with a general strike until this criminal regime is forced to resign? That would also be an opportunity to finally overcome the associated oligarchy and force through the reforms that have been necessary for ages. This includes a fundamental update of the constitution, which has not been updated for at least 150 years, something the US seems to be proud of for some inexplicable reason, which can only mean that this country is unaware that it is still celebrating a system of apartheid.

The same applies to the rule that constitutional judges are elected for life - for obvious reasons, there is no other democratic country in the world that would adhere to this; likewise, there is no democratic country that has an electoral college system or similar that does not even take into account the population of a particular state.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 6 points 16 hours ago

So he was master bayt? Tee hee

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Coming soon to a government near you.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

What font is used for the title? It looks good.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 1 points 16 hours ago

It's either Alkes Semibold or Skema Pro Medium according to WhatTheFont

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 16 hours ago

40,000 ? That's nothing! That's about the same amount of people that Amazon laid off since last year. But the important figure is that they layer off just 10% of their workforce. The other 90% of their robots are still going strong.