Posted on 06/22/2025 2:25:26 PM PDT by Libloather
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has chosen a secret list of three potential successors if he succumbs to the same fate as his growing list of valued lieutenants — another handful of whom were killed in overnight Israeli strikes Saturday.
Khamenei, 86, the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader since 1989, believes that either Israel or the US will try to kill him and crafted the list while holed up in a bunker, ordering his nation’s Assembly of Experts — the clerical body responsible for appointing the supreme leader — to choose from his handpicked pool should his enemies be successful, officials told The New York Times.
“If you need any more evidence that the ayatollah is shaking in his boots, look no further than him identifying his three stooges,” a source close to the White House told The Post.
Khamenei’s 55-year-old son, Mojtaba, also a cleric and close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, was once rumored to be a front-runner, but was not included on the ayatollah’s succession list, as Israel continues to dominate the skies over Tehran.
Although the list has not been published, a clear front-runner is the head of Iran’s judicial system Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, 68, due to his “willingness to be pretty ruthless in times of crisis,” Gabriel Noronha, an expert on Iranian politics, told The Post.
Assembly of Experts member Mohsen Qomi, 65, would be a strong “runner up,” said Noronha, fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. Qomi is a close confidant to Khamanei and a senior adviser on foreign affairs and communications.
Other possible successors include Assembly of Experts members Mohsen Araki, Alireza Arafi and Hashem Hosseini Bushehri. Arafi also serves on the 12-man Guardian Council, but Araki might have an edge due to his long tenure in the clerical assembly.
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AOC, Schumer, and Schiff.
Ehhhhhh...just one question, Chief. If the list is secret, how do we know there are three names on it?
I hear Kamala Harris is looking for work.
You need Indeed
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Who’s Curly, Who’s Larry and who’s Moe?? 😂 😆 😝
The assembly of Salami Salami and Balony!
Mamdani, Schumer, AOC battling for most idiotic response to Trump’s Iran strikes
I hope your not demanding the cone of silence Max to discuss how we know
Yes. Yes I am.
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