• Flying SquidM
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    181 month ago

    There are always power struggles. There will be a power struggle when Trump dies. That doesn’t mean they couldn’t easily replace him with some other useful idiot.

    • @[email protected]
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      261 month ago

      this is not a job for an useful idiot, this is job for next grand ayatollah and current one is 85 years old

      • Flying SquidM
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        91 month ago

        Nonsense. Iran has had multiple presidents who never became Mullahs, let alone the Ayatollah. There have only been two Ayatollahs. The current one was president, but that was before Iran rewrote its constitution. Note that Ahmadinejad is not the Ayatollah today.

        • @[email protected]
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          101 month ago

          well Raisi specifically was a serious candidate. Ahmadinejad fell out of favours with Khamenei as he was deemed too nationalist, and Rouhani apparently was too weak on foreign policy

          • Flying SquidM
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            61 month ago

            Even if that is the case, I doubt he was the only serious candidate. They wouldn’t have been that short-sighted. This is not the end of the regime. This will barely make an impact in the lives of most Iranians.