Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, aged 85, is reportedly seriously ill, with his second oldest son, Mojtaba Khamenei, likely to succeed him when he dies, a Saturday New York Times report disclosed.
The report noted that Khamenei's serious medical condition created a "quiet battle" over his succession. It also stated that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps would have a say in who would become the Ayatollah's successor.
Concern grew over Khamenei's successor after former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash last May.
Khamenei has served as Supreme Leader since 1989, when Ruhollah Khomeini, the first to hold the title, died.
The Times report came shortly after Israel responded to Iran's ballistic missile attack at the beginning of the month by striking numerous military sites early Saturday morning.
Iranian officials have said that they do not want escalation with Israel, the Times report added.
While attacking military targets in Iran, reports said that Israel had also attacked targets in Iraq and Syria.
Reminder that this nibba would have become Supreme Leader but instead he got MOSSADED.com a few months ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebrahim_Raisi
Since Raisissy is now getting the 72 virgin bussies in heaven, Khameneighbor has no option but to put his IRGC-connected son to monarchymaxx and replace him.
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That's not how this is supposed to work. The ideological foundation of the regime is about a worthy ayatollah being the one fit to rule over society. And in Shi'a Islam you prove that by being a really good teacher and having a lot of followers who study your religious teachings. It's not supposed to be "well my dad did it, so I guess I can too".
I think they're in increasing trouble trying to justify the regime. A heck of a lot of its legitimacy comes from the Iran-Iraq War and there's generations of people now who were born after that. And the original revolutionaries are dying off so they've got to transfer power to a younger generation that has no accomplishments except beating girls to death over their fashion sense.
Anyway, I hope he suffers for a while before he dies.
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Kinda reminds you of another questionalbly legit regime that used to exist to the North, don't it?
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Canada.
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Extremely boring succession plan. They should have some sort of Ninja Warrior-esque competition
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It better be like Japanese Ninja Warrior where they've got gag contestants like octopus guy and the blonde Playboy model.
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Unironically that's how Turks used to do it.
Do to succession issues since TVRKISH SVLTAN BVLLS would have so many kids is that they would have them fight to see who could take ISTANBVLL first and become the king.
!karaboga
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no more brother wars...
i think putting them on house arrest was a good idea
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What's this?
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artistic visualization of a Persian transfer of power
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Who must go? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_won%27t_exist_in_25_years
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Maybe he meant 25 Mars years?
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Convenient timing for Israel, almost as if they shot him with the Jewish cancer lasers
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Or God is punishing him by killing him with butt cancer like his predecessor.
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Honestly Iran can get fricked, I hope Israel continues to dunk on them for the foreseeable future. Maybe they can murder his son before he dies just to cause drama, and then murder whoever they eventually choose to be his successor.
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Not racist, but isn't it possible that this is exactly what the filthy grasping Jews want us to think?
Snapshots:
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-826211:
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