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Iran’s New Supreme Leader, Russia and China Join the War, Western Alliance Shatters, Oil Crisis Deepens, and Trump Holds America Hostage With the SAVE Act
5️⃣ Khamenei’s Son Takes Power
Iran’s Assembly of Experts, 88 clerics in total, did not hesitate for a single minute in naming Mustafa Khamenei, 56, as the country’s new Supreme Leader — one week after a joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike killed his father, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with his mother and brother. Mustafa was already considered more hardline than his father before the assassinations, and Trump’s response was to say he’s “not happy with the choice” and that the new leader “won’t last long.” As Blundell put it, “You’ve just put the craziest son of a b***h in the bloodline in…
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