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.
157 Comments
RandAlThor@lemmy.ca · 201 pts · 171d
Is that the regime change Trump and Netanyahoo wanted?
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 230 pts · 171d
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 34 pts · 170d
It is so cosmically funny to me that he pulled that whole stunt with the jet only for the speech to be exclusively remembered as "The Mission Accomplished Speech". Some people will have to google "george bush jet stunt" to know what I'm talking about, which is remarkable considering how hard they tried to make it a thing at the time.
LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 170d
I refuse to criticize anyone that decides to take a jet landing with an arrested stop on an aircraft carrier compared to just a simple helicopter landing. That's cool as hell.
Everything else about this moment was stupid and misleading though.
scarabic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 170d
Yes but it’s dumb as hell for a president to try to look cool as hell for the cameras before making a speech about a damn war he started.
obinice@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 169d
Ameyyrucahhh FUCK YEAAAA comin again to save the motherfuckin day YEAHH
redbrick@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 170d
Just when you think the orange was the worst...this guy tops them all...
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 169d
The new psycho moron, has likely already toured the old one in worldwide deaths.
Between Covid mishandling and doge cuts he’s on his way past millions needlessly dying.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 32 pts · 170d
They wanted monarchy. They've received monarchy
venusaur@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 171d
Trump just wants to have his own Zero Dark Thirty moment.
Triumph@fedia.io · 15 pts · 170d
That's the name of his underpants.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 170d
Nero Dork Turdy
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 170d
If the goal was to create endless wars to avoid consequences, ig?
john_t@piefed.ee · 4 pts · 170d
Nepotism™
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 169d
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BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 168 pts · 170d
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 170d
I think this is the best this meme has ever been used. It'll probably never be topped.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 170d
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 110 pts · 170d
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 170d
Khomeini, then Khamenei...I thought it would be something like Khemienie next.
victorz@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 170d
First one was Khomeini.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 170d
Oops, you're right. Fixed.
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 170d
🙏❤️
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 170d
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.
0x0@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 170d
Kermit would've been more interesting.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 170d
Ayatollah Kermit
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 84 pts · 170d
America and Israel's attack almost certainly snuffed out the rebellion in Iran, especially after they bombed a school full of children.
People aren't going to overthrow the local authorities when a foreign country unilaterally decides to attack their country and even targets their children.
I expect this had the exact opposite effect of what the Trump administration claimed to desire.
Then again, I seriously doubt that the real objective of the Pedo War was ever related to Iran itself.
deepflows@lemmy.today · 29 pts · 170d
Yeah, no. Russia really needed gas and oil to be much more expensive globally. That Ukraine war is costly. Also the Trump/Epstein files. Also Israel.
Riverside@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 170d
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 170d
Because Iran is targeting vessels in the Strait of Hormuz it brings the global price of oil up and drives demand for Russian oil. Yes, Russia supports Iran, but this war is a win for Russian interests. It erodes the international order, stamps out rebellion in Iran, boosts oil profitability, reinforces their stance that the neoliberal world order is a threat, and weakens America.
Plus, they won't directly intervene cause of their non-aggression pact with Israel (Israel doesn't arm Ukraine, Russian oligarchs vacation in Israel)
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/3/how-russia-could-benefit-from-the-us-israeli-war-on-iran
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 170d
Yes.
Riverside@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 170d
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 170d
This admin is full of individuals that the Kremlin has kompromat on. It's not surprising at all.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 169d
FIFY
clot27@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 170d
you guys are so disingenious fucks its crazy
US and israel are doing blatant imperialism, and even if russia happens to be benefit from it how can you claim it is all conspired by them? Neo liberal world order is shit and I hope it ends Weak america is good for the wrold
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 170d
I don't think anyone suggested that, but go off. First comment blamed Russia, Israel, and the Epstein files. Someone asked why Russia, I explained why Russia. Thank you, come again
clot27@lemmy.zip · -8 pts · 170d
westoids are so dumb low iq chimps they would blame clear blatant american imperialism on russia, shame on you
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 169d
In that racist muck of how you expressed yourself one does find the bright jewel of a point that in the West (especially America, IMHO) there's a overwhelming tendency to "blame the foreigners" in some way or other (be it "immigrants" or "foreign states") for things which are first and foremost the fault of 100% local people, the 100% local system that puts them in power and the 100% local citizenry who went along with all of it for decades.
Specifically on what America is doing now, none of whatever Russian influence (much less, the far, far, vaster Israeli one) would at all work if the quality of the local politicians which people kept putting in power for decades (all the while going along with the stupidly obvious nationalist propaganda of how special America) wasn't so abysmally bad.
Americans in general are first and foremost to blame for this shit, mainly for their cheerleading of a system which started flawed and got increasingly broken over time without them doing anything to fix it (when was the last time there was a General Strike in the US???!).
sobchak@programming.dev · 16 pts · 170d
I've seen some reporting that claims the US and Israel is bombing leftist opposition in Iran. And arming Kurdish militants. Seems like they just want Iran completely destabilized.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 170d
This is exactly what they want, but I doubt the Kurds are going to trust them anymore, so the US really has no control over how things settle.
The US is currently operating at the strategic level of a drive-by shooter.
0x0@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 170d
They've had ample practice in South America for decades.
scarabic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 170d
I don’t think the US killing civilians drives Iranian rebels back into philosophical alignment with their government, but certainly it’s hard to get a protest together when the US is bombing.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 169d
An exterior threat can have a rally-around-the-flag effect. They hate the administration, but now they see an even bigger threat, a foreign threat. They might not want to rock the boat now.
scarabic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 167d
I suppose this is true. I have more criticisms than praise for my home country, the US, but when I hear people outside it criticize it in a hostile way, my first reflex is not to agree with them, it’s more like “hey fuck you.”
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 169d
Discontent only turns into Revolution when enough people voice it and act on it, as they feed each other's confidence in changing things eventually turning into a critical mass for change.
An external enemy that attacks for no reason, more so one which is so murderous and immoral that they would mass kill children, will make a lot of people not voice their discontent with the only structure capable of unifying them in defense against the external agreessor, much less act against it.
Then on top of that, that murderous foreign aggressor has actually voiced their the desire for said Revolution.
If before in Iran voicing opposition to the regime might actually inspire others to also voice their own discontent, now it will inspire others to attack that person for doing what that foreign aggressor wants.
So what before was growing into a critical mass for change amongst the general population has now been rolled back into what is most small groups of like-minded extremelly anti-regime individuals surrounded by a general population that sees them as working for a foreign aggressor which is so evil that they blew up a school full of children.
turdburglar@piefed.social · 2 pts · 169d
well you’re not talking about epstein anymore, so it seems like it did have the effect he desired.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 169d
I used the expression "claimed to desire" for a reason.
What Trump (or, in fact anybody in his administration) says and reality are totally unrelated things which at the best of times are about as related as boats which pass each other in a thick fog.
turdburglar@piefed.social · 1 pts · 168d
fair enuf
thorhop@sopuli.xyz · -1 pts · 170d
The idea might have been that if people actually start a revolution, the Iranian oligarchs would also be ousted, Hamas would stop receiving funding, leading to their collapse and a stabilization of Palestinian political movements that are not as extreme...
Can't have that. So bomb the crap out of civilian targets to unite the Iranian people under the next Ayatollah - despite how oppressive and awful his regime is - to kickstart Iranian hatred for the west again, so things can return to status quo.
"Mission accomplished", Netenyahu will say, cradling a cognac in his hand while sitting on a throne made out of the bones of dead Palestinians.
Trump will just be confused and frustrated, but he's an idiot and a Muppet in this case, so it stands to reason.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 169d
Absolutely not, Iranians were cheering when the guy died. Bombs fall and they cheer. There's no way people who do that will suddenly ally with the regime again.
clot27@lemmy.zip · -3 pts · 170d
what do you think hamas exist because of iran? no dumbass, hamas exist because constant aparthied and genocide inflicted by the illegal israeli state and resistance will existence until zionists ethnically cleanse palestinians or palestine gets liberated
You are a zionist if you dont support armed resistance
thorhop@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 170d
Who promoted Hamas into power in the 2010s? Answer: Netenyahu! And who has funded them? Answer: Iranian oligarchs!
Put it all together, and what do you get? Geo political theater - that Palestinians suffer and die for every day. In fact, most of Hamas are Palestinians, but mostly just the grunts who have to fight and die for the wants of old men.
And who said I was against armed resistance, numbnuts? I'm for an actual legitimate Palestinian sovereign force - and Hamas ain't it, chief. There are vying factions in Gaza, one of them being Hamas, and I think they should combine forces, because it's like a micro balkanization sort of deal between them. They should form a new PLO of sorts.
But hey, I guess nuance ain't your thing, with your one track, "two things can't be true at the same time" mind.
Go back to TikTok. I'm sure they appreciate your dog water takes there.
clot27@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 169d
No netanyahu did not promote hamas wtf are you talking about?
thorhop@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 169d
Go bother a search engine instead, big boy. Crunch your brain as to why Hamas was propped up by Israeli interests. Also, you get bonus points if you learn who the PLO were.
Have fun.
clot27@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 165d
Share the source big guy Also october 7 attacks were supported by iran hezbollah, PFLP (which is secular marxist lenninst militant group) and many other armed resistance groups Are you suggesting they were all propped up by israel? Dont mae me laugh
canadian_commie@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 170d
Is the USA tired of winning yet? The rest of us would like to resume life as normal please.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 169d
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.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 169d
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.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org · 0 pts · 169d
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.
hightrix@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 169d
You’re right. Not everything does.
But this war is a distraction from the Epstein files. Operation Epstein Fury.
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 169d
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.
Diurnambule@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 169d
If it was true they're would not be able to elect a replacent if you thrust american media.
SaltySalamander@fedia.io · 39 pts · 171d
Bets on how long he lives?
acantharea@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 170d
Pretty sure theres a polymarket for this now ☠️ Horror world
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 170d
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...
errer@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 170d
This dude is gonna be dead in a month. If I were a degenerate gambler I’d bet on that.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 170d
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.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 170d
Nothing encapsulates the capitalistic moral decay of the modern world quite as much as this
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 170d
Coups and assassinations aren't just entertaining, but also very profitable (for anyone, not just corrupt aristocrats) now!
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 170d
Someone set up an alert for new multi thousand dollar bets
Bonifratz@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 170d
If he's smart, he'll stay anywhere BUT his own house.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 170d
Or any of the bunkers, or any administrative building. Also keep the fuck away from schools
TwilitSky@lemdro.id · 1 pts · 170d
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)?
0x0@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 170d
Was it a Teams meeting?
RandAlThor@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 170d
I'm sure he's now in some mile-deep bunker.
redbrick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 170d
...and other brothers in other mile deep bunkers.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 170d
Pfft, about tomorrow lunchtime.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 37 pts · 170d
Meet the new Boss.
Same as the old Boss.
Alloi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 170d
"it'd be like we never even lost landfill"
lando55@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 170d
"Can you guys just call me Ayatollah Ali? In honor of my dad."
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 170d
And the new boss is probably a bit irrational being that he just lost his dad… oh well what can you do?
Inucune@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 170d
"...pull."
so_pitted_wabam@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 170d
Naw, I won’t get fooled again!
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 170d
We probably will.
so_pitted_wabam@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 170d
Here let me explain. In Tennessee there is a saying. Well, we say it in Texas but I think they say it everywhere:
Fool me one time, shame on you, fool two times…. Fool me can’t get fooled again!
Oodlenoodlenoo@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 170d
I get this reference and I'm not from either one of those states!!
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 35 pts · 170d
Imagine if Don Jr was the new president after Trump. That's what this is. America is bombing the cities where the reformist (think liberals in america) live. Traditionalists live in the rural areas (like in the US maga lives in the boonies). Their MAGA just elected their Don Jr. No one in the sticks is dying over there.
thesdev@feddit.org · -15 pts · 170d
There is no conservative vs progressive dynamic in Iran, because there are no free elections in Iran.
nomy@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 170d
Did you seriously just claim theres no conservative & progressively dynamic in Iran?
Have you been living under a rock the last 50 years?
0x0@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 170d
73 actually
Horsey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 170d
Check this report out:
Vice travels to Iran
Anecdotally: As a child I was close friends with the child of a progressive Iranian woman who left Iran to be free in America. She’s not Muslim (her parents were), and sent her son to a Baptist church with me for after school activities.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 169d
Even without free elections, you are going to have that same dynamic present.
thesdev@feddit.org · 2 pts · 169d
What I meant by that was that you don't have liberal states like California versus conservative ones like Florida, because you don't get to elect Newsom versus DeSantis. In other words people don't move to Tehran for trans rights or free daycare, they move there because that's where the majority of jobs are. So labeling Tehran as "where the reformists live" doesn't make sense to me as someone who has lived there for 25 years.
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 169d
California still has plenty of people who are far right - outside the cities. And places like Texas still have people who are relatively to the left... who live in cities. Despite the fact that cities are where the jobs are and why a lot of people live in places like Texas.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 169d
Ah, ok. I do wonder if at least the general divide between people opting to stay out of Tehran verus in the city is there with respect to being against or for the government. I could believe a bunch of people just want to make a living, but of those that support or reject the government, is there a divide between rural and urban?
thesdev@feddit.org · 1 pts · 169d
I would say generally they are more religious which somewhat correlates with backing the regime. But then again, I wouldn't categorize anywhere as a conservative or liberal stronghold.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 169d
I think the lens of "conservative" versus "liberal" is a fairly narrow and contextual one in general anyway... It's 'good enough' in American politics but even then...
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 170d
It was all worth it.
calmblue75@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 170d
He is not selected yet, according to your linked article. Your post title says he is elected according to reports.
speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 169d
How is this not the top comment?
maplesaga@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 170d
"Elected".
electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 170d
Yes, he was elected by the council who's job it is to elect that position.
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 170d
You see how that's NOT election right? That's just a group of elites appointing an heir.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 170d
It's still called an election. It's just not democratic.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 170d
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.
hobovision@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 170d
Every time I see someone say some wack ass shit and look to see their instance, it's lemmy.ml
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 170d
Something in the water
clot27@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 170d
what they said is completely factual and logical, whats your problem with that statement?
electric_nan@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 170d
Every time I see someone complaining about .ml it's because they can't engage with reality.
iglou@programming.dev · 4 pts · 170d
An election is not necessarily something done by the people. What you're thinking of is called "universal suffrage".
mstrk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 170d
He wasn't elected, rumors are that the clerics were pressured to vote for the son of the supreme leader...
iglou@programming.dev · 2 pts · 170d
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.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 169d
Yeah.
Election of the pope.
Election of the chair.
Those elections are done by a small group of people.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 170d
you mean like the Shah?
merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 170d
So? Like the head of state in some liberal democracies. For example, the Prime Minister (and the President of the Republic) in Italy.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 170d
Selected
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 170d
Fidelio@piefed.social · 17 pts · 170d
NyPost? Really
merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 170d
Be careful not to read their comment section. I read a few and I think my IQ has dropped to a single digit
answersplease77@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 170d
So Iran turned into another gulf monarch dictatorship just like the rest of US allies. Task failed successfully.
SpicyWizard@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 170d
Turned? Wasn't like that for the last 47 years?
markovs_gun@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 170d
Despite having a very similar sounding last name, Ali Khamenei (the guy who was just killed) wasn't related to his predecessor, Ruhollah Khomeini. These two guys have been the only leaders of Iran since the revolution so it is actually a change to pick someone's son for the job, but it is still an election by clerics rather than a strict hereditary monarchy.
SpicyWizard@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 170d
Yes, but nothing actually changed then. Like you said it was an election by clerics, it just happened that they decided to choose his son.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 170d
Well they've just seen what happened to the last guy. They didn't want the job themselves...
merdaverse@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 170d
The United States of Israel wanted to change the regime to a monarchy, no? Well, mission accomplished, now they can fuck off.
redbrick@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 170d
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?
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 170d
God, 56 is actually young blood in this world ruled by geriatric dictators we live in. That sucks so hard.
bomberesque@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 170d
I am 56 and I approve of this message
gergolippai@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 170d
I read this as "God, 56 yo" and was thinking how do you know god is exactly 56 years old 🤣
rarbg@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 169d
Ew. Nypost
orbitz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 168d
Yeah that's my reaction when I noticed.... oddly just when I read your comment. Fuck Murdoch's publications.
Thank you for helping me see it.
I want to add, sometimes there are good (or semi accurate) articles but having to do the checks on their reporting sucks balls and not in the fun way.
Dinner@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 169d
So same shit, different pile?
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 169d
Hm no kinda worse because now they have a clear reason for nuclear weapons
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 169d
And someone in leadership who isn't about to die of natural causes.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 169d
Indeed, same thing with the Krasnov.
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 170d
that's an odd choice considering the iranian revolutions ideology is founded on anti hereditary succession
i think it's a mistake for them
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 170d
I am going to guess the son is going to be a more competent war leader than his pops, just because he has less age to dull his edge.
Trump and friends probably owned themselves. It is preferable for your enemies to have dementia, vanity, corruption, and...huh. Trump might not be assassinated by Iran, for a couple of years. Maybe.
Generica@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 169d
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
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 169d
The NY post is fantastic at its job, which is to disseminate disinformation with an occasional "factoid" thrown in for cheap laughs
comador@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 170d
Incoming bombs on the new surpreme leader in 5...4...3...
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 170d
I would call Trump new anymore and besides I doubt Iran could bomb the US mainland anyway.
The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 170d
The US is probably tracking his bowel movements already. I give him a week
Doorbook@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 170d
I am surprised people responding to this piece of news to be valid information when Iran would make this public when they choose the next leader.
0x0@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 170d
Color me shocked.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 170d
NoToRiOuSlY BrUtAl
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 169d
"Elected"?
stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 169d
-- Terry Pratchett, Mort
m4xie@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 169d
A great many authoritarian systems throughout history, especially in the ancient world, have had a selection system that formalises compromise between the major power brokers to prevent the whole group being made easy pickings to outsiders by succession struggles.
Primogeniture is not the default because the oldest son often sucks.
The electors here are influential clergy members and high ranking military officials.
DistrictSIX@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 169d
The assembly of experts choosing the next leader is staffed by only clerics, no military personnel.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 1 pts · 169d
A leader (or at least one that wants to build a stable base of power) needs their immediate subordinates to believe in their legitimacy. The foundation of power is obedience, and the belief that you have the right to give commands that ought to be obeyed is a very effective mechanism. An election is one way to secure that legitimacy, no matter how foregone the conclusion or how large the body of electors.
Historically, you might look at the Holy Roman Emperors and the prince-electors that (at least formally) chose them. What matters is that some people obey some people who obey some people who ultimately came to the consensus to all obey the same person.
(Of course, that obedience based on legitimacy may have limits, depending on the principles underpinning that legitimacy. If the foundation is god's favour, the impression that a ruler is losing that favour may well threaten his power as well, which is how you get kings pleading with the pope to retract his excommunication: if he doesn't, his vassals might withdraw support.)
So, yes, some circle of people who are commonly accepted to have that power elected him. Nobody said it has to be a fair election, so long as the important people respect its result.
TwilitSky@lemdro.id · 3 pts · 170d
Haha I'd be like: Uh, no thanks guys, I'm good.
TwilitSky@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 170d
If only Hollywood Nepotism was this high stakes. Imagine? Arnold Schwarzenegger has died. Now up is his son Patrick from White Lotus who is now on a kill list!
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 169d
Say what you want about the man, he has no fucks left to give
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 169d
Bring back the Islamic Kingdom of Iran
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 170d
If we had any missiles left, he'd be a dead man.
mghackerlady@leminal.space · 1 pts · 170d
It's the US and israel, I highly doubt they'll ever run out of missiles
ADTJ@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 169d
I don't want to play the game of finding out
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 169d
FTFY: Ayatollah Khamenei’s oldest son elected as
supreme leadernext targetLushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 169d
Ayatollah Assaholla mk 2