EPTOn March 01 2026 22:25 Jankisa wrote:
So, it looks like Hamenei was killed in a very straight forward air strike on a meeting he held with some of his top advisors.
I, honestly, can't understand how were the people in charge of his security so bad at their jobs. Less then a year ago a bunch of them got picked off, they had the time to make sure everyone around him was loyal, and yet.
Don't get me wrong, good riddance, him being dead increases the chances of this ending sooner rather then later, he was a horrific piece of theocratic shit and I'm glad he's dead, but it boggles my mind how bad and obviously very compromised and penetrated Iranian security forces are, very similar to Venezuelan ones.
I would have though that when it was painfully obvious to everyone in the world that these strikes are coming that this guy wouldn't be meeting with anyone and would be stashed away into a super secret bunker somewhere in mountains, but nope, this moron and his to advisors were meeting in the middle of Teheran.
In any case, people suffering are, as always, civilians and US and Israel allies in the region, plus, of course, US and Israeli tax payers who are racking up quite a bill, here's hoping that whoever replaces Hamenei has a look that Trump likes so he can negotiate some sort of ceasefire as soon as possible.
So, it looks like Hamenei was killed in a very straight forward air strike on a meeting he held with some of his top advisors.
I, honestly, can't understand how were the people in charge of his security so bad at their jobs. Less then a year ago a bunch of them got picked off, they had the time to make sure everyone around him was loyal, and yet.
Don't get me wrong, good riddance, him being dead increases the chances of this ending sooner rather then later, he was a horrific piece of theocratic shit and I'm glad he's dead, but it boggles my mind how bad and obviously very compromised and penetrated Iranian security forces are, very similar to Venezuelan ones.
I would have though that when it was painfully obvious to everyone in the world that these strikes are coming that this guy wouldn't be meeting with anyone and would be stashed away into a super secret bunker somewhere in mountains, but nope, this moron and his to advisors were meeting in the middle of Teheran.
In any case, people suffering are, as always, civilians and US and Israel allies in the region, plus, of course, US and Israeli tax payers who are racking up quite a bill, here's hoping that whoever replaces Hamenei has a look that Trump likes so he can negotiate some sort of ceasefire as soon as possible.
I also did not understand but apparently he martyred himself.
Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for 37 years, appears to have chosen a different end: martyrdom.He carefully prepared for succession. He lined up replacements for officials he expected Israel and America to assassinate. He named a wartime commander, Ali Larijani, to run affairs in his absence. And he readied his followers for what was to come. In his final address on February 16th he invoked the defining tragedy of Shiism: the last battle of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, against the Sunni caliph, Yazid, at Karbala. “No one like me will pledge allegiance to someone like Yazid,” he declared, quoting the seventh-century martyr. He brushed aside the advisers who begged him to leave for the hardened bunker they had prepared (with the help of a foreign ally) to resist overwhelming air power, say his clerics and Gulf intelligence reports.And then, as Israeli bombs rained down on his compound in downtown Tehran, he remained there with his family. “He decided to remain in his known compound fully aware of the operational risks. This was a personal and political decision,” reads a Gulf intelligence report. Iran watchers agree. “He orchestrated his death,” says Ali Alizadeh, a commentator close to Iranian hardliners. “He was afraid of dying an undignified death and wanted his death to attract rather than subtract from the war.”
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