Posted on 06/18/2025 4:48:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
One of those sources, who regularly attends meetings with Khamenei, described the risk of miscalculation to Iran on issues of defence and internal stability as "extremely dangerous".
Several senior military commanders have been killed since Friday including Khamenei's main advisers from the Revolutionary Guards, Iran's elite military force: the Guards' overall commander Hossein Salami, its aerospace chief Amir Ali Hajizadeh who headed Iran's ballistic missile program and spymaster Mohammad Kazemi.
These men were part of the supreme leader's inner circle of roughly 15-20 advisers comprising Guards commanders, clerics, and politicians, according to the sources who include three people who attend or have attended meetings with the leader on major issues and two close to officials who regularly attend.
The loose group meets on an ad-hoc basis, when Khamenei's office reaches out to relevant advisers to gather at his compound in Tehran to discuss an important decision, all the people said. Members are characterised by unwavering loyalty to him and the ideology of the Islamic Republic, they added.
Khamenei, who was imprisoned before the 1979 revolution and maimed by a bomb attack before becoming leader in 1989, is profoundly committed to maintaining Iran's Islamic system of government and deeply mistrustful of the West.
Under Iran's system of government he has supreme command of the armed forces, the power to declare war, and can appoint or dismiss senior figures...
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It’s lonely in the bunker.
This dude is so old... He could expire passing a turd. Are the Iranian people actually ‘following’ him? I doubt it.
I’m supposed to feel sorry for him?
I guess one traitor in their inner cabinet is possible - two even. But five?
This smells like a made-up story for influence.
Sean Penn, ilhan Omar and Thomas Massey have handcuffed themselves to the fence in front of Khamenei’s hideout.
What the future holds is not a mystery when the sky is full of dragons and the capitol is full of acrid smoke. These religiose oligarchies all end the same way. What is left of Irans government aircraft has fled to Oman to prevent loss on the ground. We expect the family and the hanger ons are setting up shop for a government in exile. There is a point where the army is done with the risk of keeping the religiose figurehead, and a phone call is made to one of the US diplomats stating the regium has changed before the religious leader has awoken for the last time. The family of dead leaders cast to wind, because those dollars are needed for whomever is setting up shop in Oman.
On the BRIGHT side, if he dies in the bombing, there will be 72 Virgens waiting for him. Allah be praised.
Sounds like a win-win to me.
“ It’s lonely in the bunker.”
Send him a 7.65mm PPK to keep him warm.
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I don’t think you come back from hiding in a bunker.
At all.
Don’t be sorry, he deserves whatever Israel does to him.
I agree.
Questions this begs include: 1) Who is likely to succeed Khomenei?; 2) Is there a chance the Iranian people can overthrow the theocracy and establish a constitutional republic or limited monarchy?
I guess ‘hollowed out’ is a euphemism for atomized.
At 86 you are lucky you still have anything of a circle left anyway.
He’s sooo ronry.
Hey... where is everybody?
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Who’s next in line?
https://imgur.com/j8VFQgP
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