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‘A bunch of losers with no power’: Why Iran’s hardliners won’t win

‘A bunch of losers with no power’: Why Iran’s hardliners won’t win

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The Telegraph’s defence, security and foreign affairs podcast covering the conflict in Iran

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Iran’s regime is facing an existential crisis prompted by the
US-Israeli war.

Despite taking a military battering and the economy being in
ruins, Tehran refuses to surrender to Donald Trump. Historian
Arash Azizi takes Roland Oliphant and Sophia Yan inside the clash
between the regime establishment and the ultra-hardliners who
fear their vision of the Islamic Republic will not survive
peace.

He explains why the country’s powerful, IRGC-linked chief
negotiator Mohammad Ghalibaf is increasingly being attacked in
Iranian media and the dilemma facing the Islamic Republic as it
looks to make a deal without surrendering the anti-American
dogmatism that revolutionaries hold so dear.

Plus, senior foreign correspondent Adrian Blomfeld reports from
the Strait of Hormuz and Sophia and Roland discuss the
significance of the UAE pulling out of OPEC.

Highlights

Arash Azizi on why Iran’s hardliners are a “bunch of losers
with no power”

How the Iranian regime is facing a choice between reform and
destruction

CONTRIBUTORS:

Roland Oliphant, co-host @rolandoliphant

Sophia Yan, senior foreign correspondent @sophiacyan

Arash Azizi, author and historian Yale University
@arash_tehran

CONTENT REFERENCED:

Adrian Blomfield: Here in the Strait, Iran’s mosquito fleet
renders Trump blockade futile

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/28/strait-of-hormuz-irans-mosquito-fleet-winning-blockade/

Robert White, Iona Cleave: Trump ‘unlikely to accept’ Iran’s
Hormuz deal
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/28/iran-war-live-trump-peace-talks-hormuz-strikes-lebanon/

Producer: Peter Shevlin

Executive Producers: Venetia Rainey & Louisa Wells

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