Tehran, April 23 -- Power inside Iran is yet to be centralised in wake of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death, with his successor, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, yet to establish the same level of authority as his father, as much of it currently lies with Iran's hardline paramilitary group, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
According to a New York Times report based on interviews with current and former Iranian officials, members of the IRGC, a senior cleric, and individuals familiar with Khamenei and the country's leadership structure, Mojtaba, unlike his father, delegates many of his decisions to senior IRGC commanders, having not managed to fully solidify his position as supreme leader of the Islamic Republic....