Araghchi says Larijani’s assassination won’t destabilize Iran’s political system

The killing of Ali Larijani will not affect the stability of Iran’s political system, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Araghchi stated that the United States and Israel have yet to realize that the Islamic Republic possesses a strong political structure.

According to the minister, the presence or absence of any single individual does not impact this system. He added that the key factor is the stability of the system itself, not individual figures.

“I do not know why the Americans and the Israelis still have not understood this point: The Islamic Republic of Iran has a strong political structure with established political, economic, and social institutions,” Araghchi said.

“Of course, individuals are influential, and each person plays their role – some better, some worse, some less – but what matters is that the political system in Iran is a very solid structure.”

Araghchi pointed to the assassination of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of US-Israeli strikes on Feb. 28, noting that despite the huge national loss, “the system continued.”

“We have not had anyone more important than the leader himself, and even the leader was martyred, yet the system continued its work and immediately provided a replacement,” the foreign minister said. “If anyone else is martyred, it will be the same. If the foreign minister were ever to be martyred, there would ultimately be someone else to take the position.”