The Daily Signal14
Nothing that the Iranians say can be taken at face value because there is no Iranian government. The first and second echelon of that apparatus is gone. So you have the people in the military, that’s one clique. You’ve got the theocracy, that’s another. You’ve got the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Then you’ve got these elected politicians. And they have two driving concerns. One, they are terrified that one of the other three groups will think they’re weak and are negotiating with the Americans and either kill ’em or marginalize ’em or cut off their revenues, such as it is. So they always want to outdo each other.
