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Now that the IRGC has announced they are no longer following orders from the 3 man Supreme Council, there is literally no one left to negotiate with left in Iran.
AlJazeera has a helpful bio of the new IRGC commander:
"Vahidi has taken command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps at a particularly challenging moment, amid a joint US-Israeli war on his country that has killed more than 1,000 people, devastated Iranian cities, and assassinated much of the country’s senior military leadership."
"His is a dangerous job. Qassem Soleimani, the long‑time commander of the IRGC’s elite Quds Force, for example, was killed in a US drone strike in 2020 ordered by US President Donald Trump."
Mohammad Pakpour, the most recent IRGC chief, was also killed during the opening phase of the joint Israeli-US attacks on February 28. Pakpour had been appointed only after Israel killed his predecessor, Hossein Salami, during the 12-day war in June 2025."
"In the late 2000s, Interpol issued a red notice for him at the request of Argentine authorities over his alleged role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people."
"Mohammad Ali Shabani, the editor-in-chief of the Middle East news outlet Amwaj, said in a post on X that Pakpour and Salami, Vahidi’s predecessors, were “schoolteachers compared to this guy”."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/6/who-is-ahmad-vahidi-the-irgcs-new-commander
With no one to negotiate with, and the only possible subjects of negotiation disbanding the IRGC, and handing over their nuclear materials, that should narrow the debate in Congress about what our options are.
It is only day eight (yes 8), and Iran's leadership has fallen apart.
Next up: Go ahead, Assembly of Experts, meet in Qom.....Guess what awaits you there. Hint - buy life insurance before you go. 🙂
As for Vahidi, he'll die violently soon enough.
It’s like with the Mafia, except without pesky lawyers interfering.
It’s 6 AM, not the middle of the freaking night..
Real power is the ability to define day and night…