Subscriber Essay: Iran’s Next Supreme Leader?

This week’s Patreon subscriber post looks at potential successors to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This is not a topic I’ve seen given much attention of late, and when you consider that US-Iran tensions are as high as they’ve been since at least the height of the Iraqi insurgency and that Khamenei is 79 years old and at the very least a…