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Joe Kent: “The next Ayatollah that you get is going to be more radical…”

Featuring: Joe Kent, Far-right, America First | Former Candidate, U.S. House Washington, District 3

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Published | Video Starts at 51:05

And the next Ayatollah that you get, and I think this is the case by all data that we have with his son, The next Ayatollah that you get is going to be more radical because he has to show the people that he's going to push back. And there's always a tension inside of Iran between the irgc, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the clerics who run the country. They have a healthy, I think, tension between the two rivalry, IRGC's leadership. (51:05–51:11)

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Asserts that a new Ayatollah would be more radical due to internal pressures.

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