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Guards push fast Mojtaba Khamenei announcement amid dissent over hereditary rule (New Target)
Iran International ^ | March 5, 2026

Posted on 03/05/2026 6:37:11 AM PST by PJ-Comix

Iran’s Assembly of Experts is set to hold an emergency session on Thursday to formally announce Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of the late Supreme Leader, as the next leader, despite opposition from some members who warn against “hereditary leadership,” Iran International has learned.

The meeting comes two days after Iran International reported that the Assembly of Experts had chosen Mojtaba Khamenei as the next Supreme Leader under pressure from the Revolutionary Guards.

Two sources from the offices of Assembly of Experts representatives told Iran International that at least eight members will not attend the emergency session on Thursday in protest at what they described as “heavy pressure” from the Revolutionary Guards to impose Mojtaba Khamenei.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: anotherayatollah; khameinison; mojtabakhameini; newtarget

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Yeah, NOT attending the emergency session would be a smart move. Also NOT being anywhere near the new Ayatollah would also be very wise since anyone in his vicinity is doomed to become collateral damage.
1 posted on 03/05/2026 6:37:11 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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This is most definitely not the guy who the West would want to deal with. A hardliner who is being pushed by the IRGC. Look for him to meet Allah pretty quickly.


2 posted on 03/05/2026 6:43:19 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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I love that. “Yes, I’m staying away from the meeting as a form of principled protest. The fact that staying away will keep me from being blown to smithereens is beside the point.”


3 posted on 03/05/2026 6:45:40 AM PST by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: PJ-Comix

On the latest todayatollah nominee...

https://nypost.com/2026/03/04/world-news/ayatollah-khameneis-son-now-tipped-to-be-supreme-leader-was-apparently-treated-for-impotency-in-uk-hospitals-report/

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08LONDON2169_a.html

Scroll down on that second one. And think about the multiple cans of worms that opens.

The mullahs have some splainin’ to do...


4 posted on 03/05/2026 6:48:03 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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At this point who’s really calling the shots in Iran, the individual generals? Local mullahs? and how long can this crap go on?


5 posted on 03/05/2026 6:48:41 AM PST by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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Hopefully, for their sake, the IRGC knows about Zoom.


6 posted on 03/05/2026 6:48:54 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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7 posted on 03/05/2026 6:51:41 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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So comical that they sniff at hereditary monarchies as inherently evil when other forms of government have really outclassed monarchies in terms of monstrous tyranny, mass murder, and unspeakable cruelty.

'No Kings!'

Whatever.

8 posted on 03/05/2026 6:52:44 AM PST by caddie (Going forward we all need to become Trump, and also Captain Obvious, and Charlie Kirk too. )
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Possible Babylon Bee headline…

To Save Time, Iran Appoints Supreme Leader Who Is Already Dead


9 posted on 03/05/2026 6:53:33 AM PST by Lake Living
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Mossad/CIA: " And where , pray tell, will this meeting be held?"



10 posted on 03/05/2026 6:55:21 AM PST by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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and how long can this crap go on?


Until the last Arab Shia muslim 12er fanatic, willing to die to bring back the 12th Imam, is dead.


11 posted on 03/05/2026 7:01:24 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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This is B52 group commander, turn left to 232 heading.
We have our next target.


12 posted on 03/05/2026 7:03:37 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (“I don't really care, Margaret.””)
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at least eight members will not attend the emergency session on Thursday in protest

At least 8 who want to live a little longer.

13 posted on 03/05/2026 7:14:53 AM PST by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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“Iran’s Assembly of Experts”

Experts at what?


14 posted on 03/05/2026 7:15:38 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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They’ll announce it 1/4 mile underground.


15 posted on 03/05/2026 7:20:58 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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It’s the IRGC that needs to be eliminated.


16 posted on 03/05/2026 7:33:43 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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“east eight members will not attend the emergency session on Thursday”

yep, these guys are hoping to run the show after the conclave of fools are all sent to their reward of 72 virgins each ...


17 posted on 03/05/2026 7:35:23 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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“Ali Khamenei ... was treated for “impotency” so severe that he had to be hospitalized numerous times, diplomatic leaks show.”

in that case, no doubt the new guy will be a BIG advocate of missiles: the bigger the better ...


18 posted on 03/05/2026 7:38:30 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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Hereditary succession is an old Persian tradition.

Cyrus the Great was followed by his son Cambyses. Darius I was succeeded by his son Xerxes.

Cambyses died of a self-inflicted wound and Xerxes was killed in a palace revolution. Maybe one or the other will happen to Mojtaba.

19 posted on 03/05/2026 7:39:06 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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Really interesting, if the Wikileaks info is true...

Fertility treatment may have been legal in Iran at the time.

It is now.

But he went to the UK.

Why the UK...?


20 posted on 03/05/2026 7:46:05 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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