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.
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.
Say what you want about the man, he has no fucks left to give
Bring back the Islamic Kingdom of Iran
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.
Not everything has to do with Epstein, you know.
Israel saw this as an opportunity to kill parts of the Iranian leadership and couldn’t resist. The US just joined in so Trump could win another FIFA peace price.
You’re right. Not everything does.
But this war is a distraction from the Epstein files. Operation Epstein Fury.
We also managed to take out a vast amount of ballistic missiles, their launchers, air defense, aircraft, boats and regime related infrastructure and the whole top 40 in the chain of command.
If it was true they’re would not be able to elect a replacent if you thrust american media.
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
The NY post is fantastic at its job, which is to disseminate disinformation with an occasional “factoid” thrown in for cheap laughs
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.
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.
Russia is actively giving military aid to Iran and vice versa, what are you talking about?
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
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.
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.
This admin is full of individuals that the Kremlin has kompromat on. It’s not surprising at all.
This admin is full of individuals that the anybody running sex honeypots, including with children, has kompromat on.
FIFY
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
I don’t think anyone suggested that, but go off. First comment blamed Russia, Israel, and the Epstein files. Someone asked why Russia, I explained why Russia. Thank you, come again
westoids are so dumb low iq chimps they would blame clear blatant american imperialism on russia, shame on you
In that racist muck of how you expressed yourself one does find the bright jewel of a point that in the West (especially America, IMHO) there’s a overwhelming tendency to “blame the foreigners” in some way or other (be it “immigrants” or “foreign states”) for things which are first and foremost the fault of 100% local people, the 100% local system that puts them in power and the 100% local citizenry who went along with all of it for decades.
Specifically on what America is doing now, none of whatever Russian influence (much less, the far, far, vaster Israeli one) would at all work if the quality of the local politicians which people kept putting in power for decades (all the while going along with the stupidly obvious nationalist propaganda of how special America) wasn’t so abysmally bad.
Americans in general are first and foremost to blame for this shit, mainly for their cheerleading of a system which started flawed and got increasingly broken over time without them doing anything to fix it (when was the last time there was a General Strike in the US???!).
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.
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.
Discontent only turns into Revolution when enough people voice it and act on it, as they feed each other’s confidence in changing things eventually turning into a critical mass for change.
An external enemy that attacks for no reason, more so one which is so murderous and immoral that they would mass kill children, will make a lot of people not voice their discontent with the only structure capable of unifying them in defense against the external agreessor, much less act against it.
Then on top of that, that murderous foreign aggressor has actually voiced their the desire for said Revolution.
If before in Iran voicing opposition to the regime might actually inspire others to also voice their own discontent, now it will inspire others to attack that person for doing what that foreign aggressor wants.
So what before was growing into a critical mass for change amongst the general population has now been rolled back into what is most small groups of like-minded extremelly anti-regime individuals surrounded by a general population that sees them as working for a foreign aggressor which is so evil that they blew up a school full of children.
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.
well you’re not talking about epstein anymore, so it seems like it did have the effect he desired.
I used the expression “claimed to desire” for a reason.
What Trump (or, in fact anybody in his administration) says and reality are totally unrelated things which at the best of times are about as related as boats which pass each other in a thick fog.
fair enuf
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.
Absolutely not, Iranians were cheering when the guy died. Bombs fall and they cheer. There’s no way people who do that will suddenly ally with the regime again.
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
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?
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.
that’s an odd choice considering the iranian revolutions ideology is founded on anti hereditary succession
i think it’s a mistake for them
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.
There is no conservative vs progressive dynamic in Iran, because there are no free elections in Iran.
Even without free elections, you are going to have that same dynamic present.
What I meant by that was that you don’t have liberal states like California versus conservative ones like Florida, because you don’t get to elect Newsom versus DeSantis. In other words people don’t move to Tehran for trans rights or free daycare, they move there because that’s where the majority of jobs are. So labeling Tehran as “where the reformists live” doesn’t make sense to me as someone who has lived there for 25 years.
California still has plenty of people who are far right - outside the cities. And places like Texas still have people who are relatively to the left… who live in cities. Despite the fact that cities are where the jobs are and why a lot of people live in places like Texas.
Ah, ok. I do wonder if at least the general divide between people opting to stay out of Tehran verus in the city is there with respect to being against or for the government. I could believe a bunch of people just want to make a living, but of those that support or reject the government, is there a divide between rural and urban?
I would say generally they are more religious which somewhat correlates with backing the regime. But then again, I wouldn’t categorize anywhere as a conservative or liberal stronghold.
I think the lens of “conservative” versus “liberal” is a fairly narrow and contextual one in general anyway… It’s ‘good enough’ in American politics but even then…
Did you seriously just claim theres no conservative & progressively dynamic in Iran?
Have you been living under a rock the last 50 years?
the last 50 years?
Check this report out:
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.
The United States of Israel wanted to change the regime to a monarchy, no? Well, mission accomplished, now they can fuck off.
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?
“it’d be like we never even lost landfill”
“Can you guys just call me Ayatollah Ali? In honor of my dad.”
“…pull.”
Naw, I won’t get fooled again!
We probably will.
Here let me explain. In Tennessee there is a saying. Well, we say it in Texas but I think they say it everywhere:
Fool me one time, shame on you, fool two times…. Fool me can’t get fooled again!
I get this reference and I’m not from either one of those states!!
FTFY: Ayatollah Khamenei’s oldest son elected as
supreme leadernext targetI 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.
Is that the regime change Trump and Netanyahoo wanted?
no because not enough people died just yet
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.
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.
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.
Ameyyrucahhh FUCK YEAAAA comin again to save the motherfuckin day YEAHH
Just when you think the orange was the worst…this guy tops them all…
The new psycho moron, has likely already toured the old one in worldwide deaths.
Between Covid mishandling and doge cuts he’s on his way past millions needlessly dying.
They wanted monarchy. They’ve received monarchy
If the goal was to create endless wars to avoid consequences, ig?
Trump just wants to have his own Zero Dark Thirty moment.
That’s the name of his underpants.
Nero Dork Turdy
Nepotism™
I think this is the best this meme has ever been used. It’ll probably never be topped.
