"The strike that killed Khamenei also wiped out a lot of the potential candidates or people that they thought would be the next in line," Council Senior Nonresident Fellow Paul Poast says. "There's still an immense amount of uncertainty."
"If the ambition is regime change, the means that are being used certainly are insufficient to achieve that," Council President and CEO Leslie Vinjamuri says. "Iran has been succession planning for a very long time."
"The markets can take it for a short amount of time," Council Senior Nonresident Fellow Rachel Bronson says. "Beyond that—very difficult. Prices will increase, [and] people will feel it at home."
"It looks like the very motivation that led the US to enter the war in Iraq is now in play with Iran," Council Senior Nonresident Fellow Paul Poast says.
"US foreign policy is now largely subordinate to the private interests of the president and his retainers," Council Senior Nonresident Fellow Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon write.
Senior Nonresident Fellow Alexander Cooley tells Axios that the Department of Education painting foreign funds to US colleges as a national security issue is "misleading."
"Leaders understand that they have a whole lot to gain from trying to manage the disruption," Council President and CEO Leslie Vinjamuri tells Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua.
Council Senior Nonresident Fellow Jordan Tama explores the unraveling bipartisan consensus on US foreign policy, drawing on a new analysis of more than 50 years of Council survey data.
"In the last decade, Democrats and Republicans have started to drift apart on the things that they consider most important," says Director of Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Craig Kafura, drawing on Council survey results.
