Posted on 06/18/2025 7:28:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
KhameneiUntergang (Downfall, 2004) is a movie about the last days of the Hitler regime, including Hitler's nine-millimeter-and-cyanide honeymoon with Eva Braun.
We are now looking at the final days of Iran's theocracy, which is likely to collapse by the end of the week; one week after Israel began military action.
It is well known from history that, when a country's leaders flee the battlefield, the war is over for them.
At Gaugamela in 331 B.C.E., the massive Persian army collapsed when King Darius turned his chariot to run from Alexander the Great, who was personally trying to kill him.
Once his army saw him flee, it lost its will to fight and that is why so many cities in that region are now named Alexandria or its equivalent, such as Kandahar (formerly Alexandria Arachosia).
It is now being reported that the Iranian leaders whom Israel has not killed are running like rats.
According to the Times of Israel:
Ali Asghar Hejazi — Khamenei’s senior intelligence advisor and a powerful figure within the Islamic Republic’s security apparatus — has entered secret negotiations with Russia to secure an escape route for himself and his family.
He might well not be the only one because Iran's leaders are dying like flies. The survivors know what the Persian people will do to them when the regime finally goes down, namely, what the Italian people did with Benito Mussolini.
Ordinary Iranians are meanwhile fleeing major cities wholesale even though they know or should know that Israel will not aim at noncombatants.
Why is Ali Khamenei Still Alive?
It has been reported widely that President Trump vetoed Israel's plan to kill Khamenei, but I doubt that Prime Minister Netanyahu is answerable to Trump. There might be an entirely different explanation,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The cleric was never on the battlefield.
BTTT
I’d be great to capture him alive. Too bad Osama was killed. They could have operated on him and turn him into a woman. The whole world could then see him in the buff big chi-chi’s and all.
Have a trial. Let the people decide if he’s innocent. Think Mussolini, Ceauchescau, Saddam.
Think exhale in Russia-who cares?
If the ayatollah is captured, he might be returned to the capital to face the crane.
I'm stealing that!
Regards,
Is he holding his breath in Iran? Lol
Don’t run Khamenini, you’ll just die tired.
Kill him, you make a martyr out of him. Let him run like a rat, you discredit him for all time. Get him to sue for peace and surrender his nukes, you win the Nobel (or should.)
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The Ayah-toilet is flushed.
Khamenei looks as though he’s running ...
“And Iran, Iran so far away....”
Hope “Crown Prince” Reza gets big role in replacing status quo. He, for a “Crown Prince” offers non-dynastic cred. His 3 children are all female. His only surviving sibling and half siblings are female. Nearest male option is 77 and has sons, but no one has heard of that family branch since before Reza’s father was crowned. Reza considers his daughters his heirs. Good for him, not doubt Iran would be ready for a ruling Empress in his life. Makes his claims that he doesn’t want long term rule, but rather help switch to something democratic more believable.
>> Get him to sue for peace and surrender his nukes, you win the Nobel (or should.)
... and bring him to Christ, you get a big honkin’ jewel in your crown and move the needle towards the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
If the regime falls - and that’s a big “if” - there is going to be a reckoning for the ayatollahs and the morality police. There will be a lot of them swinging from lampposts.
Haaavaad and Yale flags are at half staffed.
As another “expert” noted, there are many reasons not to assassinate Khamenei:
(1) He’s a terrible wartime leader with many gross miscalculations. We don’t want him replaced with someone competent
(2) Some portion of the Iranian people might resent the country who killed him
(3) We don’t want to turn him into a martyr
(4) The best outcome would be for him to flee (like Assad) which will bring a quick end or
(5) He should be tried and executed by the new regime (like Saddam)
So instead IDF just keeps picking off his henchmen, who are quickly replaced by less competent ones, a la Hamas.
If he splits, he can rely on France, as usual, to house him.
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