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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    The United States of Israel wanted to change the regime to a monarchy, no? Well, mission accomplished, now they can fuck off.

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    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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      There is no conservative vs progressive dynamic in Iran, because there are no free elections in Iran.

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        Did you seriously just claim theres no conservative & progressively dynamic in Iran?

        Have you been living under a rock the last 50 years?

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        Check this report out:

        Vice travels to Iran

        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.

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    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!

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    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.

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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.

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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.

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        They’ve had ample practice in South America for decades.

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        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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      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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        westoids are so dumb low iq chimps they would blame clear blatant american imperialism on russia, shame on you

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        Russia is actively giving military aid to Iran and vice versa, what are you talking about?

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          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

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            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

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            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.

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            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.

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      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.

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        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

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    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.

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    So Iran turned into another gulf monarch dictatorship just like the rest of US allies. Task failed successfully.

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        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.

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          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.

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            Well they’ve just seen what happened to the last guy. They didn’t want the job themselves…

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      I think this is the best this meme has ever been used. It’ll probably never be topped.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.