Only a day after the removal of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and a fair number of subordinate goblins, the second tier appears to have arisen. In the wake of the near-complete decapitation of the regime, on Sunday morning, the Islamic Republic's remnants have formed a new leadership council, and they are vowing revenge.
Yeah, let us know how that works out for you.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that a new leadership council “has begun its work” after death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Pezeshkian made the comment in a prerecorded message aired on Iranian state television.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the Al Jazeera network that a new supreme leader will be chosen in “one or two days.”
A massive explosion struck Iran’s capital Sunday as the Israeli military said it was striking targets in central Tehran. Earlier, Iran fired missiles at an ever-widening list of targets in Israel and Gulf Arab states in retaliation.
Right now, Israel and the United States absolutely own the skies over Iran. It's a near-certainty that the USA has satellites tasked with reconnaissance, as well as specialized aircraft. And Iran's response to date seems to be deliberately calculated to turn every nation in the Middle East against them. Launching missiles against Gulf Arab states? That's stupidity on steroids, but then, through history, Persians (Iran) and Arabs have never gotten along all that well.
This new leadership council, which we can presume won't be gathering together in one room for breakfast meetings, has announced that a new Supreme Leader will be announced in the next few days. Likely candidates include the Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, who leads Iran's seminary system and is deputy chairman of something called the "Assembly of Experts," which we can presume will be spending the next few days trying to avoid being disassembled by American and Israeli explosives. Another likely candidate is a goblin named Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, the head of Iran's judiciary.
The new council also wasted no time in claiming that the regime would be looking for payback.
- Iran vows revenge for Khamenei killing: “You have crossed our red line and must pay the price,” Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said in a televised address Sunday. “We will deliver such devastating blows that you yourselves will be driven to beg.” Trump warned that any retaliation would only lead to further escalation.
This is the usual emission of superheated gas that Iran's ruling nutcases have always been famous for, but it also can't be dismissed out of hand.
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Right here in the United States, after all, thanks to the feckless non-enforcement of immigration law and border security during the four years of the Biden administration, there may be as many as 1,500 Iranian nationals who entered the United States illegally from 2021 to 2025, and that number would only be the ones we know of. Now, today, we still likely have very little idea where these people are or what they are up to.
We also have no idea how many of them may be receiving orders from the new regime right now.
Even so, this new ruling council doubtless has several sets of American and Israeli crosshairs on it. The skies over Iran belong to the United States and Israel, and the streets are full of Iranian citizens, screaming their joy at the death of the late and unlamented Khamenei. Settling this thing once and for all is up to them, but we sure can clear the road for them.
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