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Ayatollah Khamenei’s oldest son elected as supreme leader to replace his dad: report

https://lemmy.ca/post/61271111

Ayatollah Khamenei’s oldest son elected as supreme leader to replace his dad: report - Lemmy.ca

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.

RandAlThor Mar 3

Is that the regime change Trump and Netanyahoo wanted?

Trump just wants to have his own Zero Dark Thirty moment.

If the goal was to create endless wars to avoid consequences, ig?

no because not enough people died just yet

BeanGoblin Mar 3

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

backalleycoyote Mar 3

samus12345 Mar 4

Khomeini, then Khamenei…I thought it would be something like Khemienie next.

Khomeinei

First one was Khomeini.

samus12345 Mar 4

Oops, you’re right. Fixed.

maplesaga Mar 4

“Elected”.

electric_nan Mar 4

Yes, he was elected by the council who’s job it is to elect that position.

You see how that’s NOT election right? That’s just a group of elites appointing an heir.

electric_nan Mar 4

He’s not a king, dude. I don’t love their system of government, where they give any share of power to religious representatives… but it is their system. They also do have elections for parliament and president. I don’t know much more than that, but it’s not like the ayatollah is an absolute monarch.

hobovision Mar 4

Every time I see someone say some wack ass shit and look to see their instance, it’s lemmy.ml

Something in the water

what they said is completely factual and logical, whats your problem with that statement?

An election is not necessarily something done by the people. What you’re thinking of is called “universal suffrage”.

He wasn’t elected, rumors are that the clerics were pressured to vote for the son of the supreme leader…

Well that’s something else, but it doesnt change the fact thaft an election can be a small group of people electing a nation leader.

Danquebec Mar 5

Yeah.

Election of the pope.

Election of the chair.

Those elections are done by a small group of people.

answersplease77 Mar 4

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

SpicyWizard Mar 4

Turned? Wasn’t like that for the last 47 years?

markovs_gun Mar 4

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.

SpicyWizard Mar 4

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.

Blackmist Mar 4

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

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.

deepflows Mar 4

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.

Riverside Mar 4

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

chuckleslord Mar 4

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)

aljazeera.com/…/how-russia-could-benefit-from-the…

How Russia could benefit from the US-Israeli war on Iran

A protracted conflict in the Middle East could help Russia’s war effort in Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

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

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

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.

Danquebec Mar 5

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.

Big Baby Thor Mar 4

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.

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

Big Baby Thor Mar 4

Who promoted Hamas into power in the 2010s? Answer: Netenyahu! And who has funded them? Answer: Iranian oligarchs!

Put it all together, and what do you get? Geo political theater - that Palestinians suffer and die for every day. In fact, most of Hamas are Palestinians, but mostly just the grunts who have to fight and die for the wants of old men.

And who said I was against armed resistance, numbnuts? I’m for an actual legitimate Palestinian sovereign force - and Hamas ain’t it, chief. There are vying factions in Gaza, one of them being Hamas, and I think they should combine forces, because it’s like a micro balkanization sort of deal between them. They should form a new PLO of sorts.

But hey, I guess nuance ain’t your thing, with your one track, “two things can’t be true at the same time” mind.

Go back to TikTok. I’m sure they appreciate your dog water takes there.

No netanyahu did not promote hamas wtf are you talking about?

Big Baby Thor Mar 5

Go bother a search engine instead, big boy. Crunch your brain as to why Hamas was propped up by Israeli interests. Also, you get bonus points if you learn who the PLO were.

Have fun.

Share the source big guy Also october 7 attacks were supported by iran hezbollah, PFLP (which is secular marxist lenninst militant group) and many other armed resistance groups Are you suggesting they were all propped up by israel? Dont mae me laugh

Lushed_Lungfish Mar 5

Ayatollah Assaholla mk 2

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

Mulligrubs Mar 5

The NY post is fantastic at its job, which is to disseminate disinformation with an occasional “factoid” thrown in for cheap laughs

Ew. Nypost

Yeah that’s my reaction when I noticed… oddly just when I read your comment. Fuck Murdoch’s publications.

Thank you for helping me see it.

I want to add, sometimes there are good (or semi accurate) articles but having to do the checks on their reporting sucks balls and not in the fun way.

Mulligrubs Mar 5

Say what you want about the man, he has no fucks left to give