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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'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
"Elected"?
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.
Ayatollah Assaholla mk 2
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.
Color me shocked.
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?
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 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.
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.
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.
If only Hollywood Nepotism was this high stakes. Imagine?
Arnold Schwarzenegger has died. Now up is his son Patrick from White Lotus who is now on a kill list!
If we had any missiles left, he'd be a dead man.
It's the US and israel, I highly doubt they'll ever run out of missiles
Haha I'd be like: Uh, no thanks guys, I'm good.