Full Subtitled Interview: Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi
The interview with Seyed Araghchi is not a recounting of events. It is a diagnostic report on the failure of American strategy. Every detail he gives — from the coded contingency plans to the diplomatic calls on day four, to the collapse of the building he was in, to the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei — is evidence of how Iran functions under existential pressure. The United States expected Iran to behave like a brittle state. Iran behaved like a state that had already internalized the worst‑case scenario and built systems to absorb it.
1. The U.S. Assumed Iran Had No Succession Plan. Iran Had…
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