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Iranian state media confirms death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 121 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hmm yes I think I will remove the respected leader that opposed Iran having a nuclear weapons program. 👀

[-] F_State@midwest.social 69 points 3 months ago

That was widely expected to die soon of natural causes anyway

[-] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 59 points 3 months ago

In a society that reveres martyrdom above all else 🤔

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 months ago

I feel like its a goal of the MIC as it gives them a reason to exist. Use violence, terror, kill civilians to create more enemies and justify more military spending.

Not a good long term strategy, but the orphan crushing machine still has people willing to operate it.

[-] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The US generally benefits from depopulating & undeveloping resource rich or strategically marginal areas for coercion, keeping costs down, denial purposes, or just to keeping value chains stable, but this risks blowing up the petrodollar system. I think they might actually be completely insane. What did WarClaude™ tell them?