Since the latest replacement for dictator—- Mojtaba Khamenei—has been seriously wounded by a strike, this is what they use as a substitute.
It must be tough being a top leader in Iran these days. Currently, they are dropping faster than the average drummer for Spinal Tap.
First, the United States and Israel took out Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with an airstrike at the end of February. Soon thereafter, much of the country’s military and political leadership suffered the same fate. A few days ago, what remained of that leadership selected the former leader’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, as the new Supreme Leader, but reports swirled for days that he had already been killed or critically injured as well.
Another possibility is that, given the average life expectancy of a Supreme Leader in Iran in 2026, maybe the younger Khamenei simply didn’t want the job.
Such speculation was hardly put to rest on Sunday as the Iranian regime proudly held a ceremony to welcome the new terrorist-in-chief to his office.
Except Khamenei wasn’t even there. Instead, the regime brought out — and we swear we are not making this up — a cardboard cutout with Khamenei’s face on it.
……..We thought it had to be fake as well. According to Grok, however — and we understand that even Grok gets it wrong sometimes — this is not AI, but footage from the actual IRGC coronation ceremony on Sunday.
The responses did not disappoint:
They’re like bowling pins. The Iranians keep setting them up, we keep knocking them down.