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US-IRAN War. Ayatollah Khamenei killed. Iranian missiles and drones all over Middle East. Iran closes Strait of Hormuz

Not only Americans, many people from all countries in war has casualties and families broken. How do you propose all 3superpowers to co-exist?
How do Israel and Hamas co-exist so no war and no one dies in war?
All Jews should have eradicated by Hitler during WW2 concentration camp.

He is just too nice to them
 
ever since the fall of shan of iran during the iranian revolution, americian presidents have always been the biggest shit stirrer in the middle east... be it, bush, clinton, obama, biden, trump...
 
The Iranian's new leader is going to be the son of the deceased, Motjaba Khamenei. He'll be even more hardlined and definitely will not compromise since his father, mother, wife and son had all been killed by the air strikes on 28 February 2026. Charm Liao, how to end this war like that?

Mojtaba Khamenei, son of slain Ayatollah, emerges as leading choice to be successor​


Mr Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is an influential if reclusive figure who has operated in the shadows of the empire of his father, who was killed Saturday in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

Mr Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is an influential if reclusive figure who has operated in the shadows of the empire of his father, who was killed Saturday in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

Published Mar 04, 2026, 12:00 PM

Updated Mar 04, 2026, 12:48 PM

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TEHRAN - The senior clerics responsible for selecting Iran’s next supreme leader met on March 3 to deliberate, and the son of

the slain former leader,

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, emerged as the clear front-runner, according to three Iranian officials familiar with the deliberations.


The officials said that the clerics were considering announcing that the son, Mr Mojtaba Khamenei, would be his father’s successor as early as morning on March 4 but that some had expressed reservations, fearing that it could expose him as a target for the United States and Israel.

They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations.

The clerics, known as the Assembly of Experts, held two virtual meetings, one in the morning and one in the evening, according to the officials.

Israel struck a building in Qum, one of Shiite Islam’s main seats of power, where the assembly was scheduled to meet and elect the new supreme leader, but the building was empty, according to the Fars News agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Professor Vali Nasr, an expert of Iran and Shiite Islam at Johns Hopkins University, said Mr Mojtaba Khamenei would be a surprising choice – and a potentially telling one.

“He was slated to become the successor for a long time,” Prof Nasr said, “but for the past two years, it seemed to have dropped off from the radar. If he is elected, it suggests it is a much more hardline Revolutionary Guard side of the regime that is now in charge.”

Mr Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is an influential if reclusive figure who has operated in the shadows of the empire of his father, who was killed Saturday in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

Mr Mojtaba Khamenei is known for having close ties to the IRGC. The guard, according to the three officials, pushed for his appointment, arguing that he had the qualifications needed to steer Iran in this time of crisis.

“Mojtaba is the wisest pick right now because he is intimately familiar with running and coordinating security and military apparatuses,” said Mr Mehdi Rahmati, an analyst in Tehran. “He was in charge of this already.”

Mr Rahmati said that, nevertheless, not everyone will be pleased.

“A portion of the public will react negatively and forcefully to this decision, and it will have a backlash,” he predicted.

Supporters of the government would see him as a continuation of a ruler whom they view as martyred and will back him swiftly, Mr Rahmati said. But government opponents, too, will see him as a continuation of the regime, which in recent months killed hundreds of protesters.

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A man holds a photo of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as people mourn his killing at a rally in Tehran, on March 1.

PHOTO: ARASH KHAMOOSHI/NYTIMES

Other candidates who have emerged as finalists are Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, a cleric and jurist who is part of the three-person transition council of leadership named after Ali Khamenei was killed, and Mr Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the Islamic revolution’s founding father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Both Mr Arafi and Mr Hassan Khomeini are viewed as moderates, with the latter being close to the sidelined reformist political faction in Iran.

Mr Abdolreza Davari, a politician close to Mr Mojtaba Khamenei, said in public statements and in interviews with The New York Times that if Mr Khamenei did succeed his father, he could emerge as a figure in the style of Saudi Arabian leader Mohammed bin Salman.

“He is extremely progressive and will move to sideline the hardliners,” Mr Davari said in a text message before the war. “See his appointment as a shedding of skin.”

Earlier on March 4, at a news conference in Washington, US President Donald Trump said that many of the people his government had viewed as potential leaders of Iran had been killed since American-Israeli attacks began on Feb 28. “Pretty soon we’re not going to know anybody,” he said.

Asked about a worst-case scenario in Iran, he said: “I guess the worst case would be we do this and somebody takes over who’s as bad as the previous person. Right, that could happen. We don’t want that to happen.”

The Assembly of Experts consists of 88 senior Shiite clerics who are picked in public elections and under Iran’s Constitution are responsible for appointing, supervising and discharging the supreme leader. This is the second supreme leader the assembly will pick in the Islamic republic’s 47-year history.

In 1989, the assembly picked Mr Ali Khamenei, handing him the reins of a newly created theocracy. For more than four decades he ruled with absolute power and little flexibility to change.

Mr Mojtaba Khamenei’s wife Zahra Adel; his mother Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh and a son were killed alongside his father in strikes on Feb 28, the Iranian government said. NYTIMES

Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/...eading-choice-to-be-successor?ref=top-stories
 
Beware of AI video generated images. There is much AI fakery around.

An example:- I used a picture of a Lego land city model, (did not use a real city picture as it may be sensitive to others) then add an AI prompt, and this is the result. Took me only 20mins for this project.


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The Fatah missiles should not be under-estimated.

However, fortunately, ACCESS to such highly powerful missiles comes with several layers of security checks and authorization from top commanders.

As MOST of the top commanders had been eliminated, there is NO authorization coming forthwith from them, along with the security codes to access the ammo depot where it is kept.

Commanders of such ammo depot are either dead, or had fled for their lives, or sweating heavily away in his desk if he choose to remain, as in a war, none can be trusted as one knows not who is who, who wants such stocks, and will have to guard with his life, should he remains in such high security steel vaults.

Furthermore, he is NOT a trained commander who knows how to use and trigger such missiles, nor have the necessary electronic control systems to fire such missiles, Only the missile commanders with his team and equipment can do so.

But with NO authorization, he can only sweat away or flee. Also, it would not be easy to break into such high security vaults, as it is heavily metallically strengthened, and worse, any attempt to use explosives to break thru the vaults will result in the entire stock of missiles blowing up.....
 
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