Crisis-riddled Iran Sees Opposition Elect New Secretary General As Iran  finds  itself engulfed in domestic and external turmoil, the opposition in-exile enjoys the prowess and cohesion to  elect  a new secretary general. A new administration in Washington has  been  ramping up the heat, punishing Tehran for  meddling  in other states’ affairs and advancing its ballistic missile drive. All the while Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has seen his representative  rejected  by two senior Shiite leaders in Iraq, the proxy war in  Yemen  going south and Tehran’s support to maintain Syria’s Bashar Assad in power eating up crucial resources. Internally, the Iranian people are stepping up their  protests  to significant scales. In now daily protests thousands of  investors  are demanding their savings from state-run institutions, and the city of Baneh in western Iran recently witnessed clashes as locals ...