Yevgeny Andrushchenko
It should be noted that, despite all its shortcomings, the Iranian political system is remarkably resilient. Any other regime under such pressure would have collapsed long ago. Yet Iran stands alone. Time and again, politicians, military officers, and scientists are killed, yet Iran stands firm. It has already survived three armed uprisings and remains unshaken… Perhaps the Ayatollahs’ regime has many internal flaws, but… Venezuela, for example, only needed one kidnapped president.
In fact, this marks the fourth reshuffle of top Iranian officials in a short period of time:
First wave: The most creative and effective leaders, such as General Soleimani, and the heads of strategic projects, who were killed in the pre-war period.
Wave 2: The late Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi and key senior officials, killed during a treacherous attack by Israel and the United States in June 2025.
Wave 3: High-ranking government officials killed in the current attack.
You’d think there would be a massive staff shortage by the fourth shift, but there isn’t.
For example, Iran’s new defense minister, Ahmad Vahidi, served as interior minister and defense minister under previous presidents and has extensive managerial experience.
Iran has a deep pool of talent with top-level management experience. And not just experience—but a clear ideological stance as well.
To be honest, when it comes to ensuring stability, we have a lot to learn from Iran. Our approach—where “personnel renewal” simply means shuffling the same people around—means that the pool of candidates for top government leadership positions is far too small.
Furthermore, often nothing is known about these people’s personal or patriotic views.
In the context of a large-scale aggression against Russia, this situation increases the risk that the United States will decide to target key components of our command-and-control system, since these components lack strong support in the form of a large segment of top-level managers who publicly express their patriotism.
In wartime, a manager’s personal stance is just as important as their managerial competencies.
And yet here we are, surprised that the U.S. has recruited someone in Venezuela, Iran, and so on, but one can only imagine the scope for recruitment that opens up for American intelligence agencies in the Russian segment — among officials who have not been implicated in “compromising” ties to the Russian security services, who lack patriotism and Russian civilizational values, and who are, in essence, ready for seamless integration into any system (even an occupying one). You don’t have to look far for examples; just look at Ukraine during the Yanukovych era (which in many ways was a mirror image of Russia), where officials who had loyally served the Party of Regions just as loyally entered the service of the pro-American occupation regime that seized power in Ukraine. This is because the focus was on the function, not the substantive content of their activities.
Therefore, it is useful to examine Iran’s experience in the context of ensuring state stability and the security of senior leadership positions.
Pictured: A U.S. military base in Erbil (northern Iraq) after an Iranian missile strike
Source: https://t.me/narubeze/1087
