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FTFY: Ayatollah Khamenei’s oldest son elected as ~~supreme leader~~ next target
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.
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.
You’re right. Not everything does.
But this war is a distraction from the Epstein files. Operation Epstein Fury.
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.
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that's an odd choice considering the iranian revolutions ideology is founded on anti hereditary succession
i think it's a mistake for them
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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"Elected"?
A leader (or at least one that wants to build a stable base of power) needs their immediate subordinates to believe in their legitimacy. The foundation of power is obedience, and the belief that you have the right to give commands that ought to be obeyed is a very effective mechanism. An election is one way to secure that legitimacy, no matter how foregone the conclusion or how large the body of electors.
Historically, you might look at the Holy Roman Emperors and the prince-electors that (at least formally) chose them. What matters is that some people obey some people who obey some people who ultimately came to the consensus to all obey the same person.
(Of course, that obedience based on legitimacy may have limits, depending on the principles underpinning that legitimacy. If the foundation is god's favour, the impression that a ruler is losing that favour may well threaten his power as well, which is how you get kings pleading with the pope to retract his excommunication: if he doesn't, his vassals might withdraw support.)
So, yes, some circle of people who are commonly accepted to have that power elected him. Nobody said it has to be a fair election, so long as the important people respect its result.
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.
The US is probably tracking his bowel movements already. I give him a week
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