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
Bets on how long he lives?
Pretty sure theres a polymarket for this now ☠️ Horror world
https://polymarket.com/event/iran-leader-end-of-2026
Currently they’re giving him a 43% chance of still being the leader of Iran by the end of the year. So I suppose his chance of surviving at all is a little higher than that…
This dude is gonna be dead in a month. If I were a degenerate gambler I’d bet on that.
Be the change you want to see in the world buddy.
The odds on the current Khamenei still being in charge end of the year are trending down… and pretty quickly too. Could just be settling after the official announcement.
Nothing encapsulates the capitalistic moral decay of the modern world quite as much as this
Coups and assassinations aren’t just entertaining, but also very profitable (for anyone, not just corrupt aristocrats) now!
Someone set up an alert for new multi thousand dollar bets
If he’s smart, he’ll stay anywhere BUT his own house.
Or any of the bunkers, or any administrative building. Also keep the fuck away from schools
I see they did decide on him in a REMOTE meeting (apparently leadership figured out that perhaps hanging out together in the same building wasn’t the smartest call)?
Was it a Teams meeting?
I’m sure he’s now in some mile-deep bunker.
…and other brothers in other mile deep bunkers.
Khomeinei, then Khamenei…I thought it would be something like Khemienei next.
Much like the Sequels, there’s no long term plot for this war so bringing back familiar characters is easier on the audience. I expect to find out Soleimani survived and now has a pair of bionic legs.
Khomeinei
First one was Khomeini.
Oops, you’re right. Fixed.
🙏❤️
Kermit would’ve been more interesting.
Ayatollah Kermit
I think this is the best this meme has ever been used. It’ll probably never be topped.
“Elected”.
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.
It’s still called an election. It’s just not democratic.
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.
Yeah.
Election of the CEO.
Election of the pope.
Election of the chair.
All of those elections are done by a small group of people.
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.
Every time I see someone say some wack ass shit and look to see their instance, it’s lemmy.ml
Something in the water
Every time I see someone complaining about .ml it’s because they can’t engage with reality.
what they said is completely factual and logica, whats your problem with that statement?
Selected
Incoming bombs on the new surpreme leader in 5…4…3…
I would call Trump new anymore and besides I doubt Iran could bomb the US mainland anyway.
NyPost? Really
Be careful not to read their comment section. I read a few and I think my IQ has dropped to a single digit
Say what you want about the man, he has no fucks left to give
So the orange likes to get young blood into power for longevity of his ideas…I’m guessing this was his plan all along? I would also imagine if Russia weren’t preoccupied with Zelensky, he’d be all over this?
God, 56 is actually young blood in this world ruled by geriatric dictators we live in. That sucks so hard.
I am 56 and I approve of this message
I read this as “God, 56 yo” and was thinking how do you know god is exactly 56 years old 🤣
FTFY: Ayatollah Khamenei’s oldest son elected as
supreme leadernext targetIt was all worth it.
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
Ayatollah Assaholla mk 2
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.
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 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.
