BREAKING: Israel Reportedly Believes Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Has Been Killed (www.mediaite.com)
from RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 15:02
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Feb 15:15 next collapse

Was he hanging out at a girls’ elementary school?

Fuck Israel

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 15:43 next collapse

This war is certainly a blatant breach of international law but I won’t shed any tears if that fucker is really dead.

givesomefucks@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 16:11 next collapse

I mean, the CIA got him in power to begin with…

Iran had a relatively progressive democracy before we installed their authoritarian theocracy in exchange for cheap oil. Khamenei was very involved in that.

Israel has been trying to kill him ever since.

pseud@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 16:30 collapse

You confused the Islamic Republic with the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi era.

CIA installed the son of the previous usurper. Theocracy was not installed - it was a revolution against that.

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 17:55 collapse

So… the consequences of the CIA’s actions?

Turns out raping peoples basic human right to democracy, and installing puppet dictatorships, is fundamentally unstable… let alone morally, ethically, or legally justifiable.

The CIA: “but oil… and corporate profits! The Dow is over 50,000 dollarydoos”

Skiluros@sh.itjust.works on 28 Feb 18:58 next collapse

Blaming everything on the CIA effectively white washes the Iranian regime.

pseud@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 20:38 collapse

So… the consequences of the CIA’s actions?

That’s really fucking lazy. Also the consequences of British adventures in the century right up to that point, of Mongols torching everything to the ground, and oh Xerxes should have punished Dardanelles harder.

Like, yes it’s bad to rape people’s dignity, but come on, at least glance at Wikipedia sideways.

Khamenei was very involved in that.

You’ll shit bricks when you realise Khomeini and Khamenei are not the same Ayatollah :D

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Xorg_Broke_Again@sh.itjust.works on 28 Feb 21:12 collapse

You fell for western propaganda.

Stamau123@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 15:44 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f402c814-1d92-4a72-aef9-b6c285b09e22.jpeg"> Feeling some variation of this

FaceDeer@fedia.io on 28 Feb 16:53 collapse

Yeah, two awful authoritarian regimes are currently fighting and one of them is worse, but that doesn't make the other one good.

ISOmorph@feddit.org on 28 Feb 19:46 collapse

3 awful authoritarian regimes are fighting

rozodru@piefed.world on 28 Feb 16:27 next collapse

Tin foil hat time: IF he is dead he was killed before the strikes started.

HowAbt2day@futurology.today on 28 Feb 18:52 collapse

Solid strategy. You can’t kill me if I’m already dead! #checkmate ♟️

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 17:45 next collapse

Don’t believe anything they tell us unless there’s corroboration.

huquad@lemmy.ml on 28 Feb 19:20 next collapse

Best outcome is yahu and trump are next

kmartburrito@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 19:59 collapse

Unfortunately that’s like hitting two major jackpots in a row at a casino, not likely to happen. One can dream though! Sure would make the world a better place overnight.

etherphon@piefed.world on 28 Feb 19:20 next collapse

Great, so then what? Another guy they don’t fuckin like comes in. It never ends.

NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 19:43 collapse

Now it will be Saudi Iran.

hitstun@feddit.online on 28 Feb 19:27 next collapse

Is it hunting season for oppressive leaders of soverign nations? Do us next, please!

Steve@startrek.website on 28 Feb 19:53 collapse

Best we can do is a school shooting, sorry.

bridgeburner@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 20:11 next collapse

Finally some good f*cking news.

clot27@lemmy.zip on 28 Feb 20:15 next collapse

liberals opinion in comments making me puke

brucethemoose@lemmy.world on 28 Feb 21:29 collapse

ISW is keeping track of assassinations and bombings, and are calling this “unconfirmed.” But they do aggregate several sources:

understandingwar.org/…/iran-update-special-report…

<img alt="leaders" src="https://understandingwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/02-28-2026-Defense-Council-Graphic-scaled.webp">

I do wonder what happens next. Does the IRGC take over as a military junta or something? That sounds… unfun.