Even if you Grate more Satan on my Supreme, assassinating a leader doesn't mean regime change

An example of “overlearning the lessons of the past”: slavish fulfillment of someone else’s wishes by destroying one wing of the seat of power doesn’t necessarily do anything, aside from giving US neoconservatives an historical high five for removing a Supreme Leader.

This time we’re not thinking about the rape of children, rather the killing of 50 of them in trying to decapitate a regime.

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Honestly was slow to get that this is a wholly new 'Trump Doctrine':

a. We will kill you

b. we have the (newfangled) technical capacity

c. we have the political will to hit the kill button, and

d. we have the credibility to keep killing future you's until you follow our orders/red lines.

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— Albert Pinto (@70sbachchan.bsky.social) Mar 1, 2026 at 12:59 AM

Remember when Trump bombed Iran and said their program was obliterated just 8 months ago? Now Witkoff says they are weeks away from a bomb.

Claude! - VP JD Vance's February 25, 2026, announcement cites US intelligence indicating Iran is rebuilding its nuclear weapons program after US-led strikes obliterated key facilities in late 2025, heightening calls for a permanent deal or further action. - Iran's response affirms no nuclear weapon pursuit while demanding continued uranium enrichment under IAEA oversight, mirroring 2000s disputes and prompting reply skepticism likening it to unsubstantiated Iraq WMD claims that eroded public trust. - Polymarket's post leverages the news to drive engagement on prediction markets for escalation risks, where traders currently price a 35% chance of US military strikes by mid-2026, per platform data, offering a crowd-sourced gauge on diplomatic failure.

They have reportedly been days, weeks and months away from building an atom bomb or nuclear bomb for FORTY TWO YEARS. This recurring theme was established April 1984 in Jane's Defense Weekly. x

“The essence of oligarchical rule,” George Orwell wrote in 1984, “is the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living ... Ayatollah Ali Khamenei presided over exactly that"!

Death eventually comes to despots

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— David J. (@mallee-man.bsky.social) Feb 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM

Islamic Republic state media says the following three officials will, for the time being, act collectively as a temporary leadership council exercising the powers of the Supreme Leader

.- President Masoud Pezeshkian

• Judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei

• A jurist from the Guardian Council

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli strike Saturday as part of a massive joint military operation between the U.S. and Israel, Iranian state media confirmed.

*The latest: *The Iranian government announced 40 days of public mourning following the "martyrdom" of the 86-year-old ayatollah, who had ruled Iran for over 36 years.

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A full scale military attack based on false claims, to kill an 86 year old tyrant with no apparent exit strategy.

President Trump's bid to topple Iran's regime marks a sharp break from two decades of U.S. intervention playbooks across multiple presidencies.

*The big picture: *Trump's weekend strikes on Iran — and his explicit call for an uprising — diverge from how the U.S. approached regime pressure in Iraq and Venezuela, historians tell Axios. The gamble signals a more unpredictable stretch of his foreign policy ahead as he openly threatens force elsewhere.

(June 2025) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear that he would like to see regime change in Iran, and he hasn't ruled out assassinating the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. CBS News' Ramy Inocencio looks at that possibility, and what it might mean for the raging Israel-Iran war, and the region.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not ruled out assassinating Iran's 86-year-old supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the figurehead of what he calls an "existential" threat to Israel. Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel would like to see, and even help to precipitate, a change of regime in Iran, which has been ruled by a hardline theocratic government since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

On Friday, after ordering the first attacks on Iran's nuclear sites, Netanyahu said: "Israel's fight is not against the Iranian people. Our fight is against the murderous Islamic regime that oppresses and impoverishes you."

He urged the people of Iran "to unite around its flag and its historic legacy, by standing up for your freedom from the evil and oppressive regime," adding, "This is your opportunity to stand up and let your voices be heard."

Asked by ABC News in an interview that aired Monday if Israel would try to kill Khamenei, Netanyahu would only say that his country was "doing what we need to do."

He rejected suggestions that such a move would be escalatory, however, saying, "It's not going to escalate the conflict, it's going to end the conflict."

In a post on his own Truth Social media platform Tuesday, President Trump said: "We know exactly where the so-called 'Supreme Leader' is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there — We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now. But we don't want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin."