Iran’s hardliners will not listen to anyone - even China’s Xi Jinping
Weeks of American and Israeli airstrikes inflicted grievous losses on Iran’s military. Or so we thought.
Now, US intelligence assessments suggest that Iran retains 70 percent of the missiles and launch vehicles it had before the war - including most of the sites threatening the Strait of Hormuz.
Holly Dagres joins Roland Oliphant and Sophia Yan to unpack the implications. She also explains why Iran’s hardliners are unlikely to listen to China’s leader Xi Jinping, have stepped up execution of opponents and alleged spies at home, and are nose-diving the economy with a crippling internet black…
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