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The momentous news has now been confirmed: after 36 years as the supreme leader of the cruel and repressive Islamic regime in Iran, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. He was 86 years old when he was killed on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike, and now the fate of the Islamic Republic itself is uncertain. Whether this bloodthirsty regime can even survive Khamenei’s death for any significant period is an open question.
One reason why Khamenei’s death significantly exacerbates the crisis of the Iranian regime is because there is no clear successor at a time when strong, decisive, and universally recognized leadership is required for the Islamic Republic to survive. Axios reported Saturday that Khamenei’s death is “a massive blow to the regime and could accelerate its collapse, which U.S. and Israeli officials have stated as a goal of their operation.” His death “sets off an immediate succession crisis with no clear answer.”
This is because “under Iran’s constitution, a council of clerics is meant to select a new supreme leader — but Israel’s strikes also targeted senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders and political leaders, leaving the regime’s chain of command in disarray. Israeli officials say they assess the Iranian minister of defense and the commander of the IRGC were also among those killed in targeted strikes on Saturday.”
Khamenei was president of Iran from 1981 to 1989, when he succeeded the regime’s founder, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as supreme leader, but the current president, Masoud Pezeshkian, is not a cleric, and thus has no chance to follow Khamenei’s path to the top spot. As The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran explains, Khomeini established the Islamic Republic of Iran on the principle that Shi’ite clerics should be the rulers.
This is the concept of velayat-e faqih (guardianship of the jurist), which is based on the example of Muhammad himself. Khomeini argued that the prophet of Islam gave Muslims the pattern for clerical rule: “The Most Noble Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) headed the executive and administrative institutions of Muslim society. In addition to conveying the revelation and expounding and interpreting the articles of faith and the ordinances and institutions of Islam, he undertook the implementation of law and the establishment of the ordinances of Islam, thereby bringing into being the Islamic state.”
So, following the example of Muhammad, modern-day Shi’ite clerics should rule Iran and make it an Islamic state. The additional problem that Iranian Shi’ite clerics face as they consider the question of who should succeed Khamenei is that the Iranian people are thoroughly sick of Islamic rule.
They’re so sick of it, in fact, that they’re leaving Islam itself. In June 2020, a research organization, the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in IRAN (GAMAAN), conducted an anonymous online survey on religious views in Iran after forty years of Islamic rule. Nearly 40,000 Iranians participated.
The survey organizers reported that while Iran is officially over 99% Muslim, only 40% of the Iranians who participated in this anonymous survey said that they were Muslim. After forty years of strict Islamic rule, Iranians were so far from thinking that it was the solution for society’s ills that massive numbers of them didn’t identify as Muslim at all.
So can a regime that its own people hate, based on an ideology that those people increasingly reject, manage a successful transition to a new authoritarian ruler? It is possible, but only with a great deal of bloodshed, and now that the Saturday morning strikes have taken place, and the American military machine is fully operational in Iran, it seems unlikely that President Donald Trump would sit back and watch the Islamic regime massacre even more of its own people without reprisal.
And so these are dark days indeed for the Islamic Republic. Indeed, it would be surprising if the regime does survive. We can only hope for a relatively smooth transition without too much loss of life, although it is doubtful that regime partisans will go gentle into that good night. The Iranian people have already endured more than their share of sorrow, and more is to come. This is, however, their great opportunity to bring joy out of that sorrow, and finally, after 47 years of slavery to an inhuman regime, freedom.
One thing is for sure, which is the news of the death of Khamenei will cause many Iranians are both happy and relieved about the news that Khamenei is now dead.
As The Bible informs the reader that,” When the wicked perish there are shouts of joy.” Proverbs11:10. What a brutal, cruel and oppressive tyrant that Khamenei was. What a heinously oppressive and wicked man that dictator was. As the Bible teaches, “All the days of the oppressed are wretched…” Proverbs 15:15. Likewise, the Bible teaches in Proverbs 29:2. “When the wicked rule, the people groan.”
Therefore, let the name of that murderously cruel brutal dictator rot in the annals of history. For the Bible also predicts, “The name of the wicked will rot.” Proverbs 10:7. [N.I.V.]
Maybe now a legitimate government will now be established In Iran, which respects the basic human rights of the people. In place of that horrendously brutal cruel oppressive Islamic tyrannical regime that inflected so much misery and death upon the people of Iran.
That’s what they said about Iraq, Afghanistan… Libya and Syria…
But we can see how those turned out…
Of course… Sowdi Barbaria is so much more civil to it’s people…
Yeah, no. the Iranians are not Iraqi, Afghanistani, Libyan or Syrian scumbags. They’ve been rallying for a secular government for two months and they mean it. And the Saudis have nothing to do with what will happen in Iran.
Jeff, to put it succinctly, Iranians, i.e., Persians, are not ethnically Arabs. The only thing they have in common with Arabs is the Islamic religion.. Technically and historically speaking, the Indo-Iranian people are the original Aryans.
There are also many members of the Baháʼí Faith still in Iran which the mullahs and IRGC have not entirely wiped out.
No maybe about it. Normal rational Americans remember the four years of shit we endured under Alzheimer Joe’s handlers and the D-Bags in Congress, and the Iranians remember the 46 years of terror they endured, and they particularly remember the 100,00+ of their fellows murdered by the bloodthirsty mullah regime in the last two months.
I predict every IRGC goon captured will be executed.
Breaks my heart…. NOT!
MAGA… Make America Great Again…
By attacking Iran for Regime Change for muslims… so Terrorists can do mass shootings in Texas?
The moslem rulers of Iran have been greased and President Trump is going to add Senegal to his travel ban list.
I see they put your picture up for this article. The black towel on your head is not a good look for you.
Trump back in July stated that he “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities…
That’s why the narrative has gone from Nuclear enrichment to Regime change… to now ballistic missiles”…
The story keeps changing…
But what is apparent… the Luciferian Globalists support the Sunni world…
But what is apparent, Mr. Towelhead, is you have a one track mind focused on the Sunnis, or is it the Shiites….ah who cares. You have a one track mind that thinks Luciferian Globalists are real and controlling the Sunnis…..ah who cares. You have a one track mind that thinks the U.S. started the War on Terror and was responsible for 9-11…..ah who cares. You have a one track mind that believes you were elected by God Himself. The very elect, or is it the very defective. And God knows what else. Nobody cares. But I guess you need something, anything, to write about. That is how desperate you are.
You should seek professional help…..you need it. You are a classic religious bible babbling nut case.
You are beyond belief stupid and irrelevant. You have been pushing your garbage for years and it’s just not catching on. You should try and get a lounge gig in Las Vegas. You might become a half way decent Trump hating comedian. Although I can’t imagine a lounge manager hiring you for anything other than cleaning a toilet.
Keep racking up those downvotes, It is the only thing you are good at.
“Will Iran’s Islamic regime survive?” If democrats had any say in the matter the answer would be yes.
The DEMOcrats would also add REPARATIONS! We need Operations in OUR NATION to rid us of the COMMUNISTS and islamists working to destroy the US from within! All these foreign agitators and domestic terrorists need to be dealt with! One particularly evil group – the TEACHERS UNION – should be dismantled and we take back Our Schools!
“Eliminating Iran’s terrorist sanctuaries and military capability is not enough. We must do the equivalent of de-Nazifying the country, by expelling every official and bringing down every branch of its government. This goal cannot be achieved painlessly, by weaponry alone. It requires invasion by ground troops, who will be at serious risk, and perhaps a period of occupation. But nothing less will “end the state” that most cries out to be ended.” – Leonard Peikoff, “End States Who Sponsor Terrorism”
Iranians aren’t Nazis, therefore denazification will not be necessary. Half the population are already Mossad agents. Sending in ground troops would be a huge error.
In one morning, Israel and America greased Iran’s former leaders, sunk its Navy, “annihilated” military and nuclear weapons facilities across the country and sent the IRGC survivors scurrying. It was and will continue to be done by weapons alone, controlled by men outside the country. No ground troops were necessary or ever considered. Naval cannon shells, missiles, drones and B-2 Bombers were used so lots of buttons were pushed and pilots did their thing but there was no invasion and there won’t be one. Peikoff needs to go back to jerking off to Ayn Rand and leave military strategy and tactics to our Secretary of War and his guys.
FWIW:
I’m all for wiping Islam and it’s practitioners from the face of the earth. Do them before they do us.
[Chorus]
Well, they blew the horns
And the walls came down
They’d all been warned
And the walls came down
They stood there laughing
They’re not laughing anymore
The walls came down
From “The Walls Came Down,” by The Call.
Radical Isma we can do without totally
Iran has already dropped in Ayatollah Alireza Arafi as interim Supreme Leader … and he might easily end up keeping the job indefinitely.
This guy is even more extreme in terms of his intolerance of other religions (and he hates Atheists as well, just to be sure). Iran is now all in for revenge … and the Americans are absolutely not comfortable going into another long war.
“Ayatollah” Alireza Arafi is a nobody who controls nothing and is not long for this world.
The mullahs’ Iran is gone and the Iranian people are ready to take control of their country. There is no war, just a spanking by America and Israel. We Americans are absolutely comfortable with our countries mopping up the remnants of the wimpy IRGC without anybody having to set foot in Iran. Our countries will do a victory lap with the liberated Iranian people then.
I’m pretty sure the wannabe ayatollah got greased today.
Every dog has it’s day. Don’t be hasty. He’ll get his due soon enough. I’m thinking that perhaps a tomahawk missile will soon “rearrange” his priorities (i.e., slice & dice & stir fry his mangy carcass!).
I’m pretty sure he got whacked yesterday. Not only him but there was a building full of “future leaders” or whomever that the IDF wiped out.
Well, while Netanyahu had Ayatoilet Khamenei and his top leaders greased yesterday morning, Trump had Khamenei’s army and Navy “annihilated.” All that’s left are some walking dead IRGC goons in missile sites shooting what’s left of their puny loads while they wait to be starved out by the Iranian public or blown to atoms by America and Israel. Both countries, acting in cooperation, surely know where all those sites are located, assuming any are left. The goons cowering in sheds, bunkers and safe houses or wherever, are also waiting for their impending deaths and have even less time left than the little missile men.
I’d say the odds of the bloodthirsty regime’s survival were at 0% the second President trump decided to take it out, which was probably before he was even inaugurated. The chance of survival now is less than 0%.
Presidents Trump and Netanyahu and the Iranian people have made their intentions clear through action. The Mullahcracy is dead and gone and it isn’t coming back. The Iranians are going to have a secular government and they don’t even need their 60% of non moslems to want it and get it.
And Islam will just roll on…
In other news, we’ve lost Demond Wilson, BDE. Yep, just a few weeks ago; prostrate cancer.
We will all miss him terribly.
With all respect, RIP “Dummy”.
Say hello to Redd.
the only way this ends is with boots on ground in an overwhelming level or if the army flips which has not happened. we will know only if Pahlevi returns to Persia. he has done what reagan should have at a time when there were no countries with infiltrators. there is no one who has any capacity for geopolitical strategic analysis and all our pols are only concerned with the issue of retaining power.
Fuck but you’re a retard.
In one morning, Israel and America greased Iran’s former leaders, sunk its Navy, “annihilated” military and nuclear weapons facilities across the country and sent the IRGC survivors scurrying. It was and will continue to be done by weapons alone, controlled by men outside the country. No ground troops were necessary or ever considered. Naval cannon shells, missiles, drones and B-2 Bombers were used so lots of buttons were pushed and pilots did their thing but there was no invasion and there won’t be one.
will the barbarians survive ? sure they will .
Almost all of them are already dead.
Who knows? Perhaps there will be a few press photos of them still around somewhere.
Yeah, like Elvis taking out his trash in Eerie Indiana.
The biggest problem we will have in a few days is that the targets will run out. I am guessing that the U.S. and Israeli assets inside Iran, working with the opposition and dissatisfied elements within the regime will have enough juice to take over. If not, this going to turn into another “intelligence got it wrong” intentional quagmire.
President Trump is on TV right now awarding medals to servicemen and said a bit earlier that the former regime’s stragglers are being finished off according to schedule. The entire concept of a “quagmire” is a fake news media fabrication.
The people of Iran have had enough and most likely will go “Gengis Kahn” on the tyrannical Islamic regime once they take over!
Reza Pahlavi, with an aura of the old Persia, but with American vision – is recognized by Trump. He returns with a Reform Mullah to his one side and a hero student dissident on the other. They speak for him. He appeals to the vast lower police forces not to fire on your people, but to join, and be given complete amnesty. He defines himself not as Shah or King, but a transition figure to the future. “My heart and soul is in the heroic Persian past, it’s history. But I have seen the democratic future, I was raised in the future, and it works. His life story in the in the US is appealing in its detail, and his return will have an appeal to forward looking Persians.
Why is “Ding Dong The Witch is Dead” running through my head now?