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Israel targets Iranian leadership meeting about succession: senior Israeli official
foxnews.com ^ | March 3, 2026 | Israel targets Iranian leadership meeting about succession: senior Israeli official

Posted on 03/03/2026 7:17:22 AM PST by V_TWIN

Israeli forces struck an Iranian Supreme Council gathering on Tuesday as the group was meeting to choose a successor to the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a senior Israeli official told Fox News.

Fox News' Trey Yingst reported the update on live on Fox on Tuesday morning, saying the move "speaks to the Israeli intelligence about this war."

"They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what's left of the leadership was gathering to choose a new Supreme Leader," Yingst said.

The U.S. and Israel killed 49 of Iran's most senior leaders in the opening salvo of Operation Epic Fury on Saturday morning, leaving Iran's military fractured and leaderless.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: iran; irgc; showerofhands; titanicdeckchairs
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If this turns out to be accurate, the stupidity of the Iranians just has to be Devine intervention.

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1 posted on 03/03/2026 7:17:22 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Westerners have heard about the fact IDF has been downloading traffic data for years. These sand nazi’s may not in fact know this.....

And we haven’t hit them with the hardest blows yet.

By all appearances, this is going extraordinarily well.


2 posted on 03/03/2026 7:22:44 AM PST by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: V_TWIN

Job12:24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a trackless waste.


3 posted on 03/03/2026 7:24:28 AM PST by Skwor
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To: SteelPSUGOP

They’re a buunch of Baghdad Bobs at this point.

Tehran Toms.


4 posted on 03/03/2026 7:25:18 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: V_TWIN

Iranian Generals Kicking Themselves For Not Just Meeting Over Zoom

https://babylonbee.com/news/iranian-generals-kicking-themselves-for-not-just-meeting-over-zoom


The Babylon Bee warned the Iranians two days ago that they should be only doing ZOOM meetings!!!!!


5 posted on 03/03/2026 7:26:16 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: V_TWIN

Zoom/videocon.


6 posted on 03/03/2026 7:27:43 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

“By all appearances, this is going extraordinarily well.”

It certainly looks that way......contrary to what the communist media in this country would have us believe.


7 posted on 03/03/2026 7:27:50 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: Skwor

This all certainly does feel biblical doesn’t it?


8 posted on 03/03/2026 7:29:22 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: V_TWIN

So who’s the todayatollah?


9 posted on 03/03/2026 7:31:17 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: one guy in new jersey

As dangerous as it may be, I wonder what options they have aside from in-person meetings. If they use any form of electronic communication, a missile or bomb is sure to quickly find them. They seem to have taken that lesson to heart following the 12-day war.


10 posted on 03/03/2026 7:35:36 AM PST by PUGACHEV
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To: V_TWIN

This is interesting...

Grok
@grok

The “Iranian Supreme Council” isn’t an official term, but in this context it likely refers to the Assembly of Experts (Majlis-e Khobregan).

It’s not a government department—it’s an independent 88-member constitutional body of Shia clerics (mujtahids) elected every 8 years by Iranian voters, with candidates vetted by the Guardian Council.

Its purpose: Elect the Supreme Leader (as now, post-Khamenei), supervise him, and dismiss if needed. Meetings like the one reportedly in Qom handle succession votes.

Currently, a 3-person interim council (president, judiciary chief, senior cleric) handles duties until they decide.

10:30 AM · Mar 3, 2026 22 Views

https://x.com/grok/status/2028855599975350307


11 posted on 03/03/2026 7:35:47 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

Knute Rockne:

Hit them again, harder, harder.
When they get up, hit them again and again.


12 posted on 03/03/2026 7:35:50 AM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: V_TWIN

Candygram, candygram for Ayatollah


13 posted on 03/03/2026 7:37:30 AM PST by E.Allen
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To: Netz

Rah Rah Ree
Kick ‘em in the knee

Rah Rah Ree
Kick ‘em in the other knee


14 posted on 03/03/2026 7:39:57 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: V_TWIN

It strikes me that in 20 years or so, there are going to be some WONDERFUL documentaries on who inside the Iranian government flipped and started feeding insider info to the IDF. Certainly seems like we are getting WONDERFUL intel.


15 posted on 03/03/2026 7:41:54 AM PST by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
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To: V_TWIN

They might be better off with a not-so supreme leader.


16 posted on 03/03/2026 7:49:46 AM PST by MAGA2017
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To: V_TWIN

I wonder what the end game is for selecting a new Iranian leader. We don’t want the mullahs or IRGC selecting one. They currently hold all the power so I understand why Israel is disrupting their meetings. We aren’t putting boots on the ground to shepherd in free and fair elections so the idea that some pro-Western prime minister is going to be elected isn’t realistic. I’ve heard Iranians in the West claim that Iranians would accept Reza Pahlavi as head of transitory government but I’m skeptical; he has lived in the West almost all of his life and I’m really not sure how many connections he has in the country. Those arguments sound like the claims that Ahmed Chalabi made about his connections in Iraq that turned out to be completely overblown BS. So what is going to happen? I have no idea. The most likely result is another ayatollah unless the US and Israel pull a rabbit out of their hat.


17 posted on 03/03/2026 7:55:14 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Skwor

Deuteronomy 99:99

“Don’t f$&@ with the Jews, or else!”


18 posted on 03/03/2026 7:56:07 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: V_TWIN

Well, tbh, the Iranians JUST missed their opportunity to hit most of our ‘leaders’ a week ago.

They could have hit one side of the room without any crying from me.


19 posted on 03/03/2026 7:56:41 AM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: V_TWIN
Iran has to be saying “Who are those guys?” (from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
20 posted on 03/03/2026 7:57:06 AM PST by McGruff
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