How Iran will try to use Khamenei’s funeral to hide cracks in regime

Even if Tehran secures favourable terms with Washington, sanctions relief alone is unlikely to prevent the revival of the protest movement, which could mobilise at a moment where the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, set up to protect the clerical ruling system] is confronting existential threats on multiple fronts...That could precipitate a brutal crackdown on the civilian population and usher in a prolonged period of instability as the regime struggles to contain mounting internal and external challenges simultaneously.”