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Iran's military 'takes ayatollah hostage' with bombshell claim coup launched
Express.co.uk ^ | Apr 22, 2026 | Tannur Anders

Posted on 04/22/2026 1:16:22 AM PDT by mairdie

Fox News has reported a power struggle has broken out within Iranian leadership and a potential coup could be taking place against the new supreme leader.

"Tonight there could be a coup, no-one knows who's calling the shots," Fox News' political commentator and host Jesse Watters said.

Watters said that the US delegation, comprising of Vice President JD Vance, Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Special Envoy for Peace Jared Kushner, were supposed to leave for Islamabad, Pakistan for negotiations with Iran.

Watters claimed the Iranian delegation never left Iran. He went on to say that Trump confimed Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei authorised the deal.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: adiosmofo; ayatollah; bombshell; coup; fakenews; hamas; hezbollah; iran; irgc; islamabad; jaredkushner; jdvance; khamenei; military; mojtabakhamenei; mullahloversonfr; pakistan; stevewitkoff; supremeleader; tds; tdstrolls; waronterror; yemen

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Don't know if there's any other reporting on this.
1 posted on 04/22/2026 1:16:22 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie
My guess is that Mullah Jr. is in a vegetative state, if he's alive at all.

I also believe President Trump is biding his time until Israel finishes with business in Lebanon.
As a big wrestling fan, President Trump always enjoys a "tag team" match.

2 posted on 04/22/2026 1:26:23 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: All

Manufacturing such events is consistent with pretty much this entire story for months. There is a seeming desperation for somehow to get regime change and have a country that is 95% Shiite reject its religious leadership.

If it does not happen, the obvious maneuver is to pretend that it did.


3 posted on 04/22/2026 1:28:36 AM PDT by Owen
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To: mairdie

Who the hell are all these Einsteins? Since the US and Israeli forces chopped this effing snake into pieces, no one has been in charge completely. I think Trump knows this. He says the straight is open someone else says it’s closed. Getting the rest of these IRGC asswipe’s killed off will be a problem without the Iranians taking a direct hand. If the regime actually killed 30 or 40,000 protesters. Those poor folks may be a little depleted. Blowing up power plants and bridges may slow down the IRGC but it’s hard on the civilians. The situation sucks. Killing them all and letting GOD sort it out is a pretty extreme way to go. I hope we find another way.


4 posted on 04/22/2026 1:35:16 AM PDT by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOB)
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To: mairdie

Seems rather than bridges and power plants, Trump might want to go to the heart of the problem and focus all his bombing firepower on the IRGC and their military hardware the next time he goes hot.


5 posted on 04/22/2026 1:36:43 AM PDT by chuckee (As Hillary sa)
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To: chuckee

I’m sure he’d like to do that too. Text him their location. Problem solved.


6 posted on 04/22/2026 1:38:44 AM PDT by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOB)
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To: chuckee
Trump might want to go to the heart of the problem and focus all his bombing firepower on the IRGC and their military hardware the next time he goes hot.

Where have you been the last month? Did you just wake up from a coma?

7 posted on 04/22/2026 1:41:17 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Equine1952
"Killing them all and letting GOD sort it out is a pretty extreme way to go.

I think it would be bad form for us to resort to a scorched earth approach while common sense still has a chance at prevailing over an unmitigated aftermath. Peace through strength should bring peace with honor.
8 posted on 04/22/2026 2:03:48 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: mairdie

We should be parachuting small arms and ammunition to the citizens of Iran.


9 posted on 04/22/2026 2:16:14 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: mairdie

Fox News has jumped the shark.


10 posted on 04/22/2026 2:21:35 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

11 posted on 04/22/2026 2:26:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: mairdie

How do you take a legless vegetable hostage?

CC


12 posted on 04/22/2026 3:51:07 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: Owen

Nominally shiite. Many are agnostic, but play along out of a sense of self preservation.

CC


13 posted on 04/22/2026 3:53:15 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: exnavy

I think we tried shipping small arms via the Kurds but the Kurds just kept them. Time to find more honest wholesalers.

CC


14 posted on 04/22/2026 3:57:19 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Shoot, they’re the easiest ones! Just plop ‘em on a gurney and roll ‘em away.


15 posted on 04/22/2026 3:58:14 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: A_perfect_lady

😅😅👍

Well played.😀

CC


16 posted on 04/22/2026 4:02:57 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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To: mairdie

All things considered…. I think you have to turn the power off in those cities and towns along the strait….l and probably Tehran before this is over.


17 posted on 04/22/2026 4:03:23 AM PDT by kjam22
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To: Equine1952

...The situation sucks....
Agreed. The terrorist nutters were disrupting the neighbourhood and adding a fear premium to global oil prices.

..Killing them all and letting GOD sort it out is a pretty extreme way to go.

But that’s what the extreme shite twelvers want.

China needs the oil. It’s their problem

England has north sea oil.
Germany, Poland, France have plenty of shale natural gas and coal. Will they shiver on cold winter nights because of the autistic chick?


18 posted on 04/22/2026 4:05:17 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: mairdie

Fox News is just another propaganda channel like CNN. I’d take anything coming from them with a big grain of salt.


19 posted on 04/22/2026 4:09:16 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: Equine1952

Artesh is the other way. That’s the regular army. They are the only other armed force (besides the Immortal Guard, which is an elite group that was exiled but has come back into the country with arms and is training the iranian people. But the best way for this to finally be finished is if Artesh understands that the IRGC is holding the whole country hostage and does their duty to kill the IRGC.

The blockade is so financially crippling that the regime cannot pay its people. Hopefully even if Artesh doesn’t care about the whole country they at least care about their own pocketbooks, because in about a week Iran will be out of storage for their oil so they’ll have to start shutting down oil wells which will destroy them. If/when that happens Iran’s economic future will be destroyed, and the Artesh men (and actually IRGC men too) have to know that their families will be destitute.


20 posted on 04/22/2026 4:44:26 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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