Klaus-Gerd Giesen

" #Iran 's Revolutionary Guards forced through the choice of Mojtaba #Khamenei as the new supreme leader, seeing him as a more pliant version of his father who would back their hardline policies."

This means that in case the military attacks by the #USA and #Israel do not trigger a regime change the Iranian population will be in a worse political situation and face even stronger repression than before the #war .

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-new-leader-still-silent-was-elevated-by-revolutionary-guards-2026-03-10/

Iran's new leader, still silent, was elevated by the Revolutionary Guards

Iran's Revolutionary Guards forced through the choice of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader, seeing him as a more pliant version of his father who would back their hardline policies, bludgeoning aside the concerns of pragmatists, senior Iranian sources said.

Reuters
Mar 11 at 1:50amWeb
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"A multitude of intelligence reports provide 'consistent analysis that the regime is not in danger' of collapse and 'retains control of the Iranian public'."

Well, then good luck to #Iran's population which under the new "guidance" of #Khameini Jr., whose "election" (despite the lack of a qualifying theological status) has been pushed by the Revolutionary Guards, may now endure the transition from theocracy to a (even more totalitarian) nationalist military regime.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-intelligence-says-iran-government-is-not-risk-collapse-say-sources-2026-03-11/