Former head of MI6: Iran has the “upper hand” in the war | The Economist

From The Economist.

Sir Alex Younger spent 30 years at MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service, with six of those as its boss. He joins the Economist’s defence editor, Shashank Joshi, to analyse the current state of the conflict, the health of Iran’s regime and what could happen next.

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00:00 – Why Iran has the “upper hand” in the conflict
01:09 – How strong is the Iranian regime?
04:59 – Who’s in the IRGC and what do they stand for?
06:21 – What comes next?

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