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etuomaala@sopuli.xyz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours ago

Iran state media confirms killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following US-Israeli missile strikes

www.theguardian.com

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Iran state media confirms killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following US-Israeli missile strikes

www.theguardian.com

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  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    us gets bogged down into a war and all they get for it is killing an 86 year old man iran had a contingency plan for

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    They’ve got the tiger by the tail now, then. Either the US and Israel pursue this all the way through to full regime change, or when they finally withdraw they’re going to be left with an implacable enemy for generations.

    I’m sure Trump thought this all through in thorough detail, though, and has a long-term plan.

    • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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      Very long term. Maybe even Two Weeks™.

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      My money is on Syria but bigger.

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      Something, something, Epstein Files

    • jaybone@lemmy.zip
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      they’re going to be left with an implacable enemy for generations.

      They already did this a few generations ago.

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      I’m sure that last line was sarcasm. 🤣

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        Well, he has a concept of a plan!

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
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        No way

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      Yeah plan is Israel takes whatever land they want, US removes their nuclear capabilities, bleeds them dry of resources/oil, tries to instate some puppet leader and then bounces only to let them fall into another awful dictatorship and the cycle continues.

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        If you think that Israel will take land from Iran you better double-check where these countries are on the map.

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          Duh, they can just build a bridge over Jordan and Iraque

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          You don’t think countries can exist non-contiguously?

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            Not in this neighborhood, no.

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              Israel has no reason not to try it with US support. I’m sure they’d love to establish some territory to the east and then squeeze to the middle.

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                It literally makes zero sense for Israel to claim hostile territory over 2000 kilometers away when the US already has numerous bases in the surrounding countries.

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                  Maybe they’ll just work their way east then starting with Lebanon and Jordan.

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      Yeah about that, he already “promised” the Islamic republican guard full immunity, you know those guys brutally slaughtering peaceful demonstrators…

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        Ah, less than a day into the fight and Trump is already frantically looking for a way to TACO.

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        Got a reliable source on that slaughter of peaceful people that isn’t just a mouthpiece for the US/Israeli agenda?

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          https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/21/at-least-3117-people-killed-during-iran-protests-state-media-reports

          Iranian state television has released the first official death toll from the recent antigovernment protests that engulfed the country, reporting that 3,117 people were killed during the crackdown.

          That was the official number by 2026/01/21

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            That’s a few but the comment was that they were peaceful protestors. This makes no mention of peaceful protestors. We know that Mossad were arming people and firing upon IRGC so there’s no surprise there’s a death toll in the thousands

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              Do we know the mossad was arming people. Do you have a credible source and not a mouth piece news organization

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                Israel’s own twitter account

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                  That you can link here?

            • midas22@lemmy.wtf
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              Go to https://reddit.com/r/newiran and ask for some examples.

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          Who would you believe if they were saying something you didn’t want to be true?

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      The last time they installed a regime in Iran they created an enemy for generations.

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    Good. Although I’m afraid not very efficient in the grand scale. Their whole system won’t probably collapse because of the death of a single scumbag, however important he might have seemed.

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      There do remain the fanatics, and they’re not going to change their ways, they’ll just pick a successor after running Iran by committee.

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    Way to make a martyr.

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      I don’t think an unpopular regime leader that oppressed the people for 37 years will become a martyr for very many people.

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        He probably will be a. Martyr for all the people that were fighting the protestors to keep him in power.

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      It creates a narrative for a retaliation attack (fake or real, doesn’t matter) that will shock America into forgetting about the Epstein Files. Whoever controls the release of those files holds Trump literally by his balls.

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      Such a good role model.

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    Thanks Trump! Best president ever!

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      Block the troll and move on.

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      You smell bad

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      Barf

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    But he could not be dead. Either way, he’s gone.

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    deleted by creator

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    https://lemmy.ml/comment/24250910

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      Y’all are eulogizing Khamenei over on lemmy.ml?

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        Did you expect different behavior from them?

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        Lemmy.world pretending to be against war but then celebrating it is so on-brand.

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          You can be against the US and it’s allies starting another war in the middle east plunging us into another multi decade quagmire AND you can be happy that that Islamist despot khomenini got the roof caved in on his ugly head

          They’re not mutually exclusive

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            “You can be against war but also for the things that happen because of war”

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              Correct, for some things.

              Like Khomeini being buried alive for example.

              The world is a better place for it.

              I hope he was scared

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                You are sure happy the only party opposing genocide was killed.

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            What about the school children?

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        Top-level comment was framing him as a feminist and had what I assume was a screengrab from his social media picturing an “inspirational” photo of a wheat field at sunrise with a muslim supplication about being sinful and repentant and asking god not to turn his face away like he rightfully does from his other servants.

        Tankies hate religion except for when it’s an anti-western theocratic dictator’s religion.

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