Winston Churchill once described Russia as 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'. The same could be said of Iran today and now, with the death of its president, killed in a helicopter smash on Sunday, Tehran's aims and ambitions have grown yet more impenetrable.
Just as the French Revolution of 1789 swiftly gave way to the tyranny of Robespierre and the Russian Revolution spawned the those twin despots Lenin and Stalin, so the unity of those who overthrew the Shah soon splintered and gave way to infighting, purges and a new, even more vicious form of autocracy.
Rigid enforcement of clothing rules for women was one signal that the ruling zealots would not bend or moderate their views, whatever the domestic pressure from a discontented population. Needless to say, such antagonism of the West and Israel has been fuelling conspiracy theories about the way he met his end.
Raisi might well have fancied himself in the role but now that he is out of the picture we can expect heated, possibly bloody, infighting among Iran's revolutionary elite. READ MORE: Will Iranian president's death trigger civil war? Helicopter crash is huge blow to regime and will 'spur rebellious youths into action', says resistance group
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