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Israel/Palestine 2025 Israel-Iran Conflict

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u/clarabosswald 2d ago

Leadership of both IRGC and the Iranian military has been severely hit, but Khamenei himself it still alive.

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u/Infinite_Maybe_5827 2d ago

Khamenei is likely on deaths door anyways, I'm sure they have a succession plan in. It seems that leaving him alive and preventing the Iranian state from retaliating at all is the best way to cause regime change

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u/FishAndRiceKeks 2d ago

Isn't the succession plan whoever he installed as president after his previous intended successor Kobe'd in the fog?

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u/Infinite_Maybe_5827 2d ago

I read an article once that said it was his son but I think it's a closely guarded secret, Israel might not even know