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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.

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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 40 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Not everything has to do with Epstein, you know.

Israel saw this as an opportunity to kill parts of the Iranian leadership and couldn't resist. The US just joined in so Trump could win another FIFA peace price.

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

You’re right. Not everything does.

But this war is a distraction from the Epstein files. Operation Epstein Fury.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works -2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 4 points 14 hours ago

If it was true they're would not be able to elect a replacent if you thrust american media.