Khamenei Junior …
… is the new Supreme Leader of Iran.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Mojtaba Khamenei is supposedly rich, too; a not-so-austere religious scholar*:
Although it’s impossible to confirm information about him found on the internet, Mojtaba appears to be fabulously wealthy. For starters, he allegedly owns a portfolio of luxury properties in London valued at more than £100 million.
Maybe if Khamenei The Younger ever decided to flee, Keir Starmer would welcome him to London.
* Reference here.
THIS could be a head fake. IRGC get a dead man to drive the IDF nuts looking for him!
At least this was mooted as a possibility at Instapundit. Outside the box thinking by those outside the box?
TJ beat me to it!
Someone commented that perhaps this guy is already dead–perhaps killed along with his father–and that the Mullas named him as their new leader as a way of laying a false trail, of deceiving our forces into looking all over for the dead guy, while their actual, new leader remains unknown–in the shadows–and, thus, safe.
One thing is pretty certain: entertainment in heaven has no doubt greatly improved of late…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itn438i30hk
Perhaps he’s gone to wherever the Hidden Imam is, to re-emerge at the apocalypse.
How many of the ‘Assembly of Experts’ are still alive?
Maybe Junior Kh is a real estate investor. I doubt he will be allowed entry into the UK.
A report this morning said Mojtaba Khamenei had been injured in a strike and had lost a leg. He was supposed to speak at a Islamic Republic rally, and they read a message from him after putting his picture on the podium.
Someone was pulling his leg?
So sad.
Just call him the
Hop along mullah fellah.
Assembly of Experts’ are still alive” – I think very few, but they don’t really matter because the IRGC (is that right) actually controls the country, as much as control they can muster.
I noticed a video the other night of what looked like many thousands of Khomeini supporters chanting and waving their cell phone lights at a nighttime rally, huge pictures of Khomeini quite evident –could have been an old stock video, could have been after Khomeini got killed.
If this was after he was killed, this represents a lot of his presumably–fanatical to one degree or the other–supporters, suporters who are very likely going to try to thwart any attempts to turn Iran back into a secular state.
And it occurred to me that one way to make the task of identifying who these people are easier would be if you were able to, say, get a helicopter or prop aircraft and use it to spray some sort of highly indelible and very noticible dye, a color–dayglow orange, purple, bright green, etc.–over everyone in such a crowd, and voila, a very easy way to identify a whole bunch of people who were quite likely to be Khomeini supporters.
For what it’s worth, the first ayatollah (ruling from 1979 to 1989) was Ruhollah Khomeini.
The second ayatollah (ruling from 1989 to a couple of days ago) was Ali Khamenei.
The first is pronouned koh-MAY-nee; the second is pronounced KAH-men-ee. [I think.]
It’s confusing but to me, it’s worth the clarity. Carry on . . .