an international relations specialist foresees “a whole series of consequences in terms of the development of political relations”

While returning from Azerbaijan, the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi crashed. The device has not yet been found, and an emergency meeting was opened in Tehran around Ayatollah Khamenei. “We have little firm and definitive information“, recalls Bertrand Badie, specialist in international relations and professor at Sciences Po. Nevertheless, this accident “indicates strong and important events, which will have repercussions both domestically and regionally. he observes.

Bertrand Badie emphasizes, however, “that in Iran, the center of power is the office of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei”, as well as the Revolutionary Guards. “The president is the head of the executive in the etymological sense of the term“, he continues. According to him, if“we should not expect there to be a shake-up in Iran’s political line“, this accident could have “a whole series of consequences in terms of the development of Iran’s political relations”. Bertrand Badie also specifies that “Raïssi had played an important role in the very strong tension with Israel and in the support with Hamas.