Can we all say ‘duh’?
The BBC wonders if Khamenei’s son as the new Supreme Leader of Iran will be “controversial” or not.
Jack Hellner | March 9, 2026
The deep thinking, brilliant people at BBC (via Yahoo News) think that dictatorially imposing the tyrannical son of Khamenei as the new leader of Iran “could” be—not would be—controversial.
Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader?
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was killed in US-Israeli strikes, has been chosen as his successor.
Unlike his father, the 56-year-old has largely kept a low profile. He has never held government office, nor given public speeches or interviews, and only a limited number of photos and videos of him have ever been published.
But for years there have been rumours that he held considerable influence behind the scenes in Iran.
US diplomatic cables, which were published by WikiLeaks in the late 2000s, described him as ‘the power behind the robes’ who was widely regarded as a ‘capable and forceful’ figure within the regime, according to AP news agency.
Yet his selection could still prove controversial.
There is no way that anyone with a brain would think this is only a potentially controversial direction for Iran after what we’ve seen the last 47 years—this is the exact same terroristic regime.
The only people who think it would be okay are China, Russia, North Korea, most of the UN, France, Spain, Great Britain, most people posing as journalists, and the small percentage of non-Iranians protesting the attack.
Oh, and of course, Democrats.
The Democrat playbook is always the same: oppose freedom and support tyranny; oppose what’s right and support what’s wrong; and fight Trump no matter what, even if he’s liberating oppressed people and making the world safer.
Democrats protested Israel retaliatory attacks against Hamas, but they didn’t protest when Hamas invaded Israel. Professors help gin up the anti-Israel protests.
They protested when the United States and Israel attacked Iran, but they did not protest when Iran killed tens of thousands of their own people.
They never protested Obama and Biden when they put kids in cages.
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