Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was tapped to assume control of the country by Iran’s Assembly of experts, Iranian International reported Tuesday.
Motjaba is known for a staunch adherence to his father’s hardline conservatism, and has close ties to Iran’s notoriously brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military body, according to CNN.
Motjaba is known for a staunch adherence to his father’s hardline conservatism
So all we have managed to accomplish in the last week of bombing Iran is kill a bunch of civilians and get the younger but just as hard line version Ayatollah Khamenei?
Excellent, very good.
It was a knee-jerk response to the Trump-Epstein files scandal…I mean…uhh…I meant to say…they’ve been planning this for months.
We also managed to take out a vast amount of ballistic missiles, their launchers, air defense, aircraft, boats and regime related infrastructure and the whole top 40 in the chain of command.
If it was true they’re would not be able to elect a replacent if you thrust american media.
It’s the NY Post. Might as well be a roll of cheap Scott toilet tissue. You know, the kind of paper that scratches your ass up
So same shit, different pile?
Hm no kinda worse because now they have a clear reason for nuclear weapons
And someone in leadership who isn’t about to die of natural causes.
Indeed, same thing with the Krasnov.
that’s an odd choice considering the iranian revolutions ideology is founded on anti hereditary succession
i think it’s a mistake for them
I am surprised people responding to this piece of news to be valid information when Iran would make this public when they choose the next leader.
The US is probably tracking his bowel movements already. I give him a week
The United States of Israel wanted to change the regime to a monarchy, no? Well, mission accomplished, now they can fuck off.
Imagine if Don Jr was the new president after Trump. That’s what this is. America is bombing the cities where the reformist (think liberals in america) live. Traditionalists live in the rural areas (like in the US maga lives in the boonies). Their MAGA just elected their Don Jr. No one in the sticks is dying over there.
There is no conservative vs progressive dynamic in Iran, because there are no free elections in Iran.
Even without free elections, you are going to have that same dynamic present.
What I meant by that was that you don’t have liberal states like California versus conservative ones like Florida, because you don’t get to elect Newsom versus DeSantis. In other words people don’t move to Tehran for trans rights or free daycare, they move there because that’s where the majority of jobs are. So labeling Tehran as “where the reformists live” doesn’t make sense to me as someone who has lived there for 25 years.
Did you seriously just claim theres no conservative & progressively dynamic in Iran?
Have you been living under a rock the last 50 years?
the last 50 years?
Check this report out:
Anecdotally: As a child I was close friends with the child of a progressive Iranian woman who left Iran to be free in America. She’s not Muslim (her parents were), and sent her son to a Baptist church with me for after school activities.
“Elected”?
Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.
– Terry Pratchett, Mort
A great many authoritarian systems throughout history, especially in the ancient world, have had a selection system that formalises compromise between the major power brokers to prevent the whole group being made easy pickings to outsiders by succession struggles.
Primogeniture is not the default because the oldest son often sucks.
The electors here are influential clergy members and high ranking military officials.
The assembly of experts choosing the next leader is staffed by only clerics, no military personnel.
America and Israel’s attack almost certainly snuffed out the rebellion in Iran, especially after they bombed a school full of children.
People aren’t going to overthrow the local authorities when a foreign country unilaterally decides to attack their country and even targets their children.
I expect this had the exact opposite effect of what the Trump administration claimed to desire.
Then again, I seriously doubt that the real objective of the Pedo War was ever related to Iran itself.
well you’re not talking about epstein anymore, so it seems like it did have the effect he desired.
I used the expression “claimed to desire” for a reason.
What Trump (or, in fact anybody in his administration) says and reality are totally unrelated things which at the best of times are about as related as boats which pass each other in a thick fog.
I’ve seen some reporting that claims the US and Israel is bombing leftist opposition in Iran. And arming Kurdish militants. Seems like they just want Iran completely destabilized.
This is exactly what they want, but I doubt the Kurds are going to trust them anymore, so the US really has no control over how things settle.
The US is currently operating at the strategic level of a drive-by shooter.
They’ve had ample practice in South America for decades.
Yeah, no. Russia really needed gas and oil to be much more expensive globally. That Ukraine war is costly. Also the Trump/Epstein files. Also Israel.
Russia is actively giving military aid to Iran and vice versa, what are you talking about?
Because Iran is targeting vessels in the Strait of Hormuz it brings the global price of oil up and drives demand for Russian oil. Yes, Russia supports Iran, but this war is a win for Russian interests. It erodes the international order, stamps out rebellion in Iran, boosts oil profitability, reinforces their stance that the neoliberal world order is a threat, and weakens America.
Plus, they won’t directly intervene cause of their non-aggression pact with Israel (Israel doesn’t arm Ukraine, Russian oligarchs vacation in Israel)
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/3/how-russia-could-benefit-from-the-us-israeli-war-on-iran
Because Iran is targeting vessels in the Strait of Hormuz it brings the global price of oil up and drives demand for Russian oil. Yes, Russia supports Iran, but this war is a win for Russian interests.
Yes.
Russia supports Iran, but this war is a win for Russian interests. It erodes the international order, stamps out rebellion in Iran, boosts oil profitability, reinforces their stance that the neoliberal world order is a threat, and weakens America.
Fully agreed, but that’s all America’s doing. If there’s any implication that Russia somehow controls America while being its nemesis, it doesn’t make much sense.
This admin is full of individuals that the Kremlin has kompromat on. It’s not surprising at all.
This admin is full of individuals that the anybody running sex honeypots, including with children, has kompromat on.
FIFY
you guys are so disingenious fucks its crazy
US and israel are doing blatant imperialism, and even if russia happens to be benefit from it how can you claim it is all conspired by them? Neo liberal world order is shit and I hope it ends Weak america is good for the wrold
I don’t think anyone suggested that, but go off. First comment blamed Russia, Israel, and the Epstein files. Someone asked why Russia, I explained why Russia. Thank you, come again
westoids are so dumb low iq chimps they would blame clear blatant american imperialism on russia, shame on you
In that racist muck of how you expressed yourself one does find the bright jewel of a point that in the West (especially America, IMHO) there’s a overwhelming tendency to “blame the foreigners” in some way or other (be it “immigrants” or “foreign states”) for things which are first and foremost the fault of 100% local people, the 100% local system that puts them in power and the 100% local citizenry who went along with all of it for decades.
Specifically on what America is doing now, none of whatever Russian influence (much less, the far, far, vaster Israeli one) would at all work if the quality of the local politicians which people kept putting in power for decades (all the while going along with the stupidly obvious nationalist propaganda of how special America) wasn’t so abysmally bad.
Americans in general are first and foremost to blame for this shit, mainly for their cheerleading of a system which started flawed and got increasingly broken over time without them doing anything to fix it (when was the last time there was a General Strike in the US???!).
I don’t think the US killing civilians drives Iranian rebels back into philosophical alignment with their government, but certainly it’s hard to get a protest together when the US is bombing.
Discontent only turns into Revolution when enough people voice it and act on it, as they feed each other’s confidence in changing things eventually turning into a critical mass for change.
An external enemy that attacks for no reason, more so one which is so murderous and immoral that they would mass kill children, will make a lot of people not voice their discontent with the only structure capable of unifying them in defense against the external agreessor, much less act against it.
Then on top of that, that murderous foreign aggressor has actually voiced their the desire for said Revolution.
If before in Iran voicing opposition to the regime might actually inspire others to also voice their own discontent, now it will inspire others to attack that person for doing what that foreign aggressor wants.
So what before was growing into a critical mass for change amongst the general population has now been rolled back into what is most small groups of like-minded extremelly anti-regime individuals surrounded by a general population that sees them as working for a foreign aggressor which is so evil that they blew up a school full of children.
An exterior threat can have a rally-around-the-flag effect. They hate the administration, but now they see an even bigger threat, a foreign threat. They might not want to rock the boat now.
The idea might have been that if people actually start a revolution, the Iranian oligarchs would also be ousted, Hamas would stop receiving funding, leading to their collapse and a stabilization of Palestinian political movements that are not as extreme…
Can’t have that. So bomb the crap out of civilian targets to unite the Iranian people under the next Ayatollah - despite how oppressive and awful his regime is - to kickstart Iranian hatred for the west again, so things can return to status quo.
“Mission accomplished”, Netenyahu will say, cradling a cognac in his hand while sitting on a throne made out of the bones of dead Palestinians.
Trump will just be confused and frustrated, but he’s an idiot and a Muppet in this case, so it stands to reason.
Absolutely not, Iranians were cheering when the guy died. Bombs fall and they cheer. There’s no way people who do that will suddenly ally with the regime again.
what do you think hamas exist because of iran? no dumbass, hamas exist because constant aparthied and genocide inflicted by the illegal israeli state and resistance will existence until zionists ethnically cleanse palestinians or palestine gets liberated
You are a zionist if you dont support armed resistance
Who promoted Hamas into power in the 2010s? Answer: Netenyahu! And who has funded them? Answer: Iranian oligarchs!
Put it all together, and what do you get? Geo political theater - that Palestinians suffer and die for every day. In fact, most of Hamas are Palestinians, but mostly just the grunts who have to fight and die for the wants of old men.
And who said I was against armed resistance, numbnuts? I’m for an actual legitimate Palestinian sovereign force - and Hamas ain’t it, chief. There are vying factions in Gaza, one of them being Hamas, and I think they should combine forces, because it’s like a micro balkanization sort of deal between them. They should form a new PLO of sorts.
But hey, I guess nuance ain’t your thing, with your one track, “two things can’t be true at the same time” mind.
Go back to TikTok. I’m sure they appreciate your dog water takes there.
No netanyahu did not promote hamas wtf are you talking about?
Meet the new Boss.
Same as the old Boss.
And the new boss is probably a bit irrational being that he just lost his dad… oh well what can you do?
“it’d be like we never even lost landfill”
“Can you guys just call me Ayatollah Ali? In honor of my dad.”
“…pull.”
Naw, I won’t get fooled again!
We probably will.
Here let me explain. In Tennessee there is a saying. Well, we say it in Texas but I think they say it everywhere:
Fool me one time, shame on you, fool two times…. Fool me can’t get fooled again!
I get this reference and I’m not from either one of those states!!
Color me shocked.
The son of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the frontrunner to replace him as supreme leader, according to reports.
He is not selected yet, according to your linked article. Your post title says he is elected according to reports.
How is this not the top comment?
Is that the regime change Trump and Netanyahoo wanted?
It is so cosmically funny to me that he pulled that whole stunt with the jet only for the speech to be exclusively remembered as “The Mission Accomplished Speech”. Some people will have to google “george bush jet stunt” to know what I’m talking about, which is remarkable considering how hard they tried to make it a thing at the time.
I refuse to criticize anyone that decides to take a jet landing with an arrested stop on an aircraft carrier compared to just a simple helicopter landing. That’s cool as hell.
Everything else about this moment was stupid and misleading though.
Yes but it’s dumb as hell for a president to try to look cool as hell for the cameras before making a speech about a damn war he started.
Ameyyrucahhh FUCK YEAAAA comin again to save the motherfuckin day YEAHH
Just when you think the orange was the worst…this guy tops them all…
The new psycho moron, has likely already toured the old one in worldwide deaths.
Between Covid mishandling and doge cuts he’s on his way past millions needlessly dying.
If the goal was to create endless wars to avoid consequences, ig?
They wanted monarchy. They’ve received monarchy
Trump just wants to have his own Zero Dark Thirty moment.
That’s the name of his underpants.
Nero Dork Turdy
Nepotism™
I think this is the best this meme has ever been used. It’ll probably never be topped.
