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Hello, you're listening to The Explanation from the BBC World Service, recorded on the 4th of March.
I'm John Simpson and this is Unspun World,
the programme that goes behind the headlines to find out what's really going on.
This week,
can the Iranian regime manage to keep going after the killing of its supreme leader and so many of its top officials?
The fact that the Iranian regime has survived so far,
I think it's surprising to many people and shows that it was not built around one person.
Are Israel and the US in lockstep over the endgame for Iran,
or are there possible rifts between them?
Maybe Israel's arm is being twisted a little bit by the US to kind of get to some kind of diplomatic solution.
And after Iran's attacks on the Gulf states,