Disputed
Open sources do not agree on the extent of any injuries you suffered on 28 February, on whether you are fully exercising day-to-day command, or on whether a collective including the IRGC is already the real principal. Iranian authorities say authority remains with the Leader. Treat both the official line and the scepticism as claims.
A title in a war
Stakes · Whether the new Leader is a person, a seal, or a rumour.
The has named you on 8 March 2026. Your father, Ali Khamenei, was killed on 28 February 2026 in the opening of a joint U.S.–Israeli campaign, according to Iranian authorities and international wires. For those eight days an — Pezeshkian, Mohseni-Eje’i, Arafi — held the Leader’s duties. That council is documented. Whether it still governs in your name is not.
You were a secretive figure even before that week. You have not been seen.
President Donald Trump said he wanted a say in who followed. He did not get it. An Israeli minister said a successor would be a target. That, at least, you can believe.
says the qualified jurist guards the community. Your surname says something the 1979 revolution claimed to have buried. Qom knows both sentences.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps () is fighting. Someone is closing, mining, or frightening the — the physical facts of the waterway are easier to see than the command chain that ordered them.
Your first choice is whether a Leader who cannot be seen can still bind the system.
Constraints of the office here
- — You cannot undo hereditary succession as a political fact.
- — Public appearance is a targeting decision, not only a public-relations one.
- — Do not invent private conversations in the bunker; play the institutional forks.
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