Der neu gewählte Ayatollah liegt möglicherweise im Koma – CBC

Hasn’t been seen or heard from, just IRGC „trust me bro“ vibes. Everyone dude knew was bombed to oblivion, how did he make it smh

Who’s behind the curtain? IRGC?

Probably best thing for him at the moment.

Idk if they knew he was in a coma, why would they make him the new Ayatollah? given that the position doesn’t have to be hereditary + especially when waking up from a coma is often a straight 50/50

His appointment is as a figurehead. Although, if he is conscious he may have some influence others are pulling the strings behind the scenes.

The IRGC is in charge.

Seems likely, as they didnt even show a PHOTO of him. Like, cmon, does nobody have cameras anymore?

He supposedly has lost some of his limbs, as well… Yet in his latest proclamation, he says ‚fight to the end‘ basically, and that the war will not stop. I just don’t get how he’s so optimistic about the situation.

Ayatollah in a coma,

I know, I know,

It’s serious.

Why on earth would they all meet in the same building? Did they really not expect the US to bomb them? Why else would they bring carriers around

LOL, they want him to come out and get bombed.

Maybe he has just been placed on the Golden Throne by the Iranian mechanicum?

He’s not an ayatollah. That’s a specific rank of shia religious erudition, not a political title. He might get accelerated to that rank as his father did, but Khatami pere still had a reasonably senior rank. Fils does not.

He’s probably in an Ayatollah cocoon, developing his Ayatollah powers now that he was chosen.

He didn’t appear in person because the last one got bombed

Screaming into the void here:

TL;DR- I wish more articles would provide a richer context to what’s going on bc as war history nerd this shit is wild

We are witnessing modern asymmetric warfare happening in an age of 24/7 news feeds and modern weapons systems plus AI 🙁

For the last 40 years Iran has developed a semi-decentralized military structure ( I say semi bc realistically decentralized has such a varying scope depending on who you ask) that involves several elements of the IRGC, Basij, and Artesh.

Each of these elements are designed so they are able to continue combat operations in case of a leadership failure which unlike many of their Arab neighbors whose armies will collapse once one or two layers of leadership are incapacitated

Their military objectives require making this war expensive for enemy factions to pursue long-term by damaging the political will to continue fighting. Iran wins by surviving while enemy factions will have to win by some absolutely silly shit in order to be to extract any value out of the war

In the interest of not making this a longer post, I’ll just say there other elements I didn’t discuss like their kinetic capabilities, proxies, NATOs response, and a whole host of their shit that makes reading this seem like an anime

There’s no real off-ramp for this type of war, it’ll just bleed other ongoing conflicts from 2026 onward

What a time to be alive

Ayatollah in a Coma is a Smiths song I think, isn’t it?

_Ayatollah in a coma, I know, I know, it’s serious..🎶_

Weekend at Khameni’s

Maybe, maybe…. Or maybe he stepped on a brick of Lego real bad. We just don’t know do we.