🇮🇷 Nobody in Tehran will say it outright, but the fight over Mojtaba Khamenei's name is really a fight over whether there's anyone left to lead.
One report says the supreme leader threatened to let President Pezeshkian resign if he tries again. Pezeshkian's office calls it a lie.
Another report claims their only meeting happened inside a car with tinted windows. A few minutes, no handshake, voices only. Pezeshkian later reportedly wondered if it was even really him.
Pezeshkian's own public account: 2,5 hours, face to face, cordial. Take your pick.
An exiled Iranian journalist doesn't think there's "a functioning person by that name who is capable of thinking, making decisions or speaking." Dead, or barely alive, that's his read.
An IRGC researcher calls it simpler than that: a power vacuum. No video, no audio, no proof of life since February. So every faction just uses his name as a weapon against the others.
"There's only so many times you can use someone's name without any proof they actually exist."
At some point, a supreme leader nobody's ever seen stops being a leader at all and ends up being a useful story.
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One report says the supreme leader threatened to let President Pezeshkian resign if he tries again. Pezeshkian's office calls it a lie.
Another report claims their only meeting happened inside a car with tinted windows. A few minutes, no handshake, voices only. Pezeshkian later reportedly wondered if it was even really him.
Pezeshkian's own public account: 2,5 hours, face to face, cordial. Take your pick.
An exiled Iranian journalist doesn't think there's "a functioning person by that name who is capable of thinking, making decisions or speaking." Dead, or barely alive, that's his read.
An IRGC researcher calls it simpler than that: a power vacuum. No video, no audio, no proof of life since February. So every faction just uses his name as a weapon against the others.
"There's only so many times you can use someone's name without any proof they actually exist."
At some point, a supreme leader nobody's ever seen stops being a leader at all and ends up being a useful story.
$HEI | $HFT | $COTI
#BREAKING #news #US #iran #war