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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.
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.
They wanted monarchy. They've received monarchy
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.
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.
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.
I think this is the best this meme has ever been used. It'll probably never be topped.
Khomeini, then Khamenei...I thought it would be something like Khemienie next.
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.
Is the USA tired of winning yet? The rest of us would like to resume life as normal please.
Bets on how long he lives?
Pretty sure theres a polymarket for this now ☠️ Horror world
https://polymarket.com/event/iran-leader-end-of-2026
Currently they're giving him a 43% chance of still being the leader of Iran by the end of the year. So I suppose his chance of surviving at all is a little higher than that...
Nothing encapsulates the capitalistic moral decay of the modern world quite as much as this
So same shit, different pile?
Hm no kinda worse because now they have a clear reason for nuclear weapons
The United States of Israel wanted to change the regime to a monarchy, no? Well, mission accomplished, now they can fuck off.
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
that's an odd choice considering the iranian revolutions ideology is founded on anti hereditary succession
i think it's a mistake for them
It was all worth it.
So Iran turned into another gulf monarch dictatorship just like the rest of US allies. Task failed successfully.
Turned? Wasn't like that for the last 47 years?
Despite having a very similar sounding last name, Ali Khamenei (the guy who was just killed) wasn't related to his predecessor, Ruhollah Khomeini. These two guys have been the only leaders of Iran since the revolution so it is actually a change to pick someone's son for the job, but it is still an election by clerics rather than a strict hereditary monarchy.
Yes, but nothing actually changed then. Like you said it was an election by clerics, it just happened that they decided to choose his son.
The US is probably tracking his bowel movements already. I give him a week
So the orange likes to get young blood into power for longevity of his ideas....I'm guessing this was his plan all along? I would also imagine if Russia weren't preoccupied with Zelensky, he'd be all over this?
God, 56 is actually young blood in this world ruled by geriatric dictators we live in. That sucks so hard.
I am 56 and I approve of this message
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.