Iran reportedly picks a brutal hardliner as the new supreme leader.
The first attempt the surviving rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran made to replace their fallen supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, didn’t quite go as planned. Fox News reported Tuesday that “Israeli forces struck an Iranian Supreme Council gathering on Tuesday as the group was meeting to choose a successor to the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.” According to Fox News’ Trey Yingst, “They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what’s left of the leadership was gathering to choose a new Supreme Leader.”
The remaining high command quickly regrouped, however. Also on Tuesday, Iran International reported that “Iran’s clerical body, the Assembly of Experts, has elected Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ali Khamenei, as the Islamic Republic’s new Supreme Leader, according to his informed sources who spoke to Iran International on condition of anonymity.”
If this report was accurate, it was a clear sign that the Islamic Republic has not decided to try to win over the disaffected Iranian people by moderating its treatment of them. Nor is it going to make even the smallest attempt to show a different face to the U.S. and Israel, so as to head off further military action against it. Instead, the surviving mullahs have decided to double down on the savagery toward their own people and bellicosity toward the outside world that have brought the situation to this point.
Iran International notes that Mojtaba Khamenei is a longtime Islamic Republic insider, although he has generally kept a low profile: “For years he operated from within the Office of the Supreme Leader, serving as a gatekeeper and power broker around his father. His position has often been compared to the role played by Ahmad Khomeini, the son of Islamic Republic’s founder Ruhollah Khomeini, who served as a key aide and confidant during the early years of the revolutionary state.”
Dr. Eric Mandel of the Middle East Political and Information Network (MEPIN) observed that Mojtaba Khamenei is “widely viewed as one of the architects of the regime’s repression.” Iran analyst Arash Azizi added that the new supreme leader “has been a bete noire of democratic movements at least since 2009 when he was rumored to have helped orchestrate the repression.”
In line with this reputation, “a key source of Mojtaba’s influence lies in his close connections to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),” the brutal and bloodthirsty enforcement arm of the Islamic Republic. And so “over the years, opposition figures and political rivals have accused Mojtaba of playing a role in shaping election outcomes and coordinating crackdowns on dissent.”
It is really no surprise that the Islamic Republic would be digging in and clinging to its brutality. The rulers of the Islamic Republic guide all their actions by the teachings of Islam, and the Qur’an gives rulers only one tool for dealing with dissent and unrest: terror. “Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)
The Islamic Republic has from its inception viewed those who oppose it as “enemies of Allah”; how could it not do so, when it so scrupulously implemented the law of Allah throughout every aspect of Iranian society? Dissidents and protestors have routinely been charged with “sowing corruption on the earth” or “making war against Allah and his messenger,” vague crimes that can encompass a wide variety of behaviors.
These crimes are also based on the Qur’an, which prescribes more terror as punishment for them: “The only reward for those who make war upon Allah and his messenger and struggle to sow corruption on earth will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides, or be expelled from the land. Such will be their degradation in this world, and in the hereafter, theirs will be an awful doom.” (Qur’an 5:33)
Thus when the Iranian Islamic regime terrorizes its own people, it thinks it is acting in accord with the commands of Allah. To refrain from striking terror in the alleged enemies of Allah would be to disobey his command. So the more the people protest, the more the regime terrorizes them. This leads the people to hate the regime and protest all the more, and all the regime can think of to do is terrorize them even more brutally.
Hence the promotion of Mojtaba Khamenei. For the Iranian people and, if the new supreme leader can manage it, the Israelis and the Americans, more terror is in the offing.
CryHavoc says
We have no shortage of missiles. If Iran insists on behaving like it is 1453, then we can oblige them.
Down with the SRC!!!
Tony says
The remaining Iranian Leaders are hiding under Schools, Mosques, Islamic Centers, etc. in hopes that Israel would surely not dare attack their Mosques. The remaining Leaders are not ready to access the Garden as taught in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.). Instead, Muslims freely attack women and children, but attacking armed soldiers in war is not so easy unless Muslims are ready to go to Paradise.
BASICALLY, ISLAM IS A MURDEROUS WAY OF LIFE AND A REIGN OF TERROR, THE DAILY PRACTICE OF ISLAMIC LAW IN 50+ ISLAMIC COUNTRIES(Qur’an 1:5; 3:51,101; 5:48, etc.). From within a society, Islam and its Muslims use a Muslim Death-Cult Caliphate Army of Jihadist Believers to engage in a spiritual and fanatical war to Islamize, impose Islam and Islamic Law, to ultimately conquer Non-Muslims. Moreover, ISLAM IS ANTICHRIST, AHISTORICAL, DECEITFUL, MILITARISTIC, AND POLITICAL continuously against the USA Constitution and Western Laws to conquer and to subjugate Non-Muslims using MUSLIM-TERRORIST-CRIMINAL-GANG ENTERPRISES with ISLAMIC LAW(SHARIA) and with CONTINUOUS, TERROR PROPAGANDA from Islam’s Qur’an as evidenced by the continuous Muslim attacks to make Islam supreme(Qur’an 2:191; 3:28, 54; 4:89-91; 7:99; 8:30, 60; 9:5, 29,111; 16:106; 45:18; 47:4, etc.). Islam, a subversive enemy of Non-Muslims, teaches, incites, and promotes murder, lies, deceit, accusations, and slander against Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Qur’an.
Deceitful Allah affirms Non-Muslims as enemies of Allah while Muslims continuously undermine a society from within using their man-made Qur’an with lies, obfuscation, and deceit(Qur’an 2:225; 3:54; 7:99; 8:30; 60:4, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels[Non-Muslims] were your clear enemies.” Allah expects all Muslim believers to war against all non-Muslims until the Unbelievers convert to Islam or face Muslim violence. Corrupt Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims.
Worthless Islam is a civilization-destroying, delusional, indoctrinating, cancerous fraud because there is NO MECCA, NO MUHAMMAD, and NO Qur’an in the 7th century AD in Saudi Arabia despite the Muslim Standard Islamic Narrative claims; the Deceitful House of Islam is founded on propaganda, lies, intimidation, and deceit where Islam’s 1400-year traditions are based on fallacy and myth including a more than 300-year gap with no documented history. Hence, NEVER give money to Islamic Countries, Islamic Organizations, Mosques, Islamic Schools, etc. because your are funding your ultimate destruction. Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence.
Islam’s Muslims are to be Seditionist Terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and their LIVES. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Again, Islam is a FACTITIOUS IDEOLOGY and CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION despicably fabricated over time into the 21sth century, and there is NO PEACE only genocidal obliteration with Islam and its deceitful Muslims(Qur’an 4:89; 7:18; 8:39: 9:5, 29, 111; 11:119; 32:13; 47:4, etc.).
Demonic ALLAH claims MUSLIMS are a greater TERROR than serpentine Allah in Islam’s Qur’an. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah(extortion payment) out of hand and they are subdued.”
Totalitarian Islam, its Mosques, its Schools, its Sharia Courts, its Organizations, etc. are Terrorist-Criminal Enterprises of hatred and enmity against all Non-Muslims as totalitarian Islam, the House of Satan, islamizes the society with impunity(Qur’an 2:225; 5:14, 64; 60:4; 9:5, 29, 111, etc.). As taught from Islam’s Qur’an, Islam should be banned for its incitement, funding, and promotion of hybrid warfare, violence, terrorism, criminality, hatred, human trafficking, and discrimination against women, children, and Non-Muslims.
Hateful Allah describes Muslim women in Jenna, Allah’s Paradise, as whores of Allah in Qur’an 56:37. Also, Allah stirs hatred, cursing, and punishment against Christians until the resurrection day as Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 2:225; 60:4; 8:55.
WPM says
There should be an American or Israeli drone with his name on it. New boss killed like the old boss ,what is the point of this war if there is still a Islamic supremist leader in charge .
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I agree w/ the above people on targeting him, but he’s said to have declined the position, saying that he wants to focus on “religion and science”. A bizarre combination if the religion is islam
Real fact on the ground is that nobody wants this job of supreme leader. Maybe Pezeshkian should persuade whoever is left to just drop that idea and just accept him, while the regime is still around
Transmaster says
He lasted 3 hours.
Transmaster says
https://x.com/RabbiPoupko/status/2030012749296587010?s=20
WPM says
I guess that drone worked? Was his name on it?
gravenimage says
Meet the New Boss, Worse Than the Old Boss
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Hard to do, but the Islamic “Republic” of Iran managed it. Now let’s see if there’s a bomb with his name on it…