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What Next - Iran’s New Nepo Ayatollah

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Who is the new supreme leader of Iran, and how does he differ from his predecessor father?


Guest: Graeme Wood, staff writer at The Atlantic and a lecturer in political science at Yale.


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.


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