Likud launches billboard ahead of elections with the four Horses Asses of the Apolcalypse

Likud billboard with Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem. August 16, 2026. 

Likud has apparently decided that the best way to kick off election season is to remind Israelis that, when it comes to political enemies, there is always room for a few more.

The party unveiled a billboard featuring Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem. Israeli social media accounts shared images of the billboard Sunday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu helpfully reposted the image with the caption: “Don’t let them win.”

The billboard itself reportedly reads: “They want Netanyahu to lose, don’t let them win.”

The Jerusalem Post, however, believes the billboard is not actually in Jerusalem, as social media posts claimed, but in Tel Aviv overlooking the Ayalon Highway. Apparently even billboards are getting caught up in the Israeli election geography dispute.

Naturally, Israeli politicians were not going to let Likud have all the fun.

Yashar, the party led by former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, produced its own version. Its billboard read: “They want the IDF to collapse, don’t let Netanyahu win.”

“Netanyahu, we fixed for you,” the X/Twitter caption read. “Only Eisenkot will establish a fully Zionist government.”

Then MK Naama Lazimi entered the fray with perhaps the most politically loaded Photoshop job of the day.

She replaced Likud’s four villains with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Netanyahu’s current strategic adviser Yonatan Urich, former media adviser Eli Feldstein, and former political adviser Srulik Einhorn, all of whom are believed to be connected to the Qatargate affair.

Qatargate concerns an investigation into Netanyahu aides who allegedly received payments from Qatar while involved in hostage negotiations with Hamas. Nothing says Israeli political unity quite like accusing your opponent of being compromised by the country associated with Hamas.

Lazimi changed the billboard's message to: “They want Netanyahu to win, don’t let them lose.”

“Netanyahu, I updated this to the Qatargate version,” she wrote. “The invoice will be submitted on October 7.”

At this point, Israeli election campaigning has apparently evolved into a national Photoshop competition with the added benefit of an occasional national security implication.

And the polls suggest voters have plenty of choices. Eisenkot’s Yashar currently leads with 24 Knesset seats, followed by Netanyahu’s Likud with 22 and Naftali Bennett’s B'Yachad with 15.

The election has not even arrived yet, and the candidates are already putting each other on billboards with Ayatollahs, terrorists, foreign leaders and alleged scandal participants.

Israelis may want to buckle up. Election season is apparently going to be a long one.

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Cardboard Gay Supreme Leader Promises to Keep Running Iran, Possibly From Beyond the Grave

Apparently death and homosexuality is just another bureaucratic inconvenience in Tehran.

Iran's possibly late Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly reassured Hezbollah that his foreign policy remains fully operational despite the minor setback of probably no longer being alive. Speaking through what observers described as a life sized cardboard cutout propped against a government building, the apparently deceased ruler vowed that Iran would continue backing Hezbollah because apparently even the afterlife has a terrorism budget.

“In line with the policy set by the great martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution, the Islamic Republic of Iran considers the defense of these oppressed yet powerful mujahideen [of Hezbollah] to be its strategic mandate,” Khamenei allegedly declared, according to posts shared on X, proving that social media now accepts updates from both influencers and apparitions.

The cardboard leader also insisted, “Today, as the nations of the world have grown weary of the tyranny and oppression of the U.S. government and the criminal Zionists, who are the destroyers of lives and generations, just because they refused to allow us to kill them, there remains no path forward except even more jihad and what we call resistance.”

Witnesses said aides periodically rotated the cardboard cutout toward different cameras to create the illusion of leadership while cabinet ministers nodded solemnly at every preprinted statement. Sources inside the regime reportedly confirmed the cutout has been remarkably consistent, never changing its position, never answering questions, and displaying exactly the same level of flexibility as the government itself. [Shades of Joe Biden.]

Khamenei's final proclamation from the great beyond insisted that Tehran has “designated the preservation of Lebanon’s territorial integrity and the absolute, unconditional termination of the Zionist regime’s aggression as the primary condition for any agreement to end the imposed war against the aggressive U.S.”

By aggression, whoever is pulling the gay Ayatollah's string means Jews who fight back after being massacred.

Analysts say the regime remains optimistic that a stationary cardboard silhouette can continue directing Middle East policy indefinitely, especially since critics argue it has shown about as much adaptability and originality as the leadership it replaced.

President Trump is hopeful that it will rain soon in Tehran, soak the cardboard leader, and collapse into a slimy heap.

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Iran's "New" Supreme Leader, Who Is Definitely Alive And Not Just A Voice-Over From A Bunker, Vows Revenge In Unhinged Social Media Meltdown

TEHRAN - In what Iranian state media is calling a "powerful display of leadership from our vibrant new Supreme Leader," Mojtaba Khamenei took to X on Saturday morning to furiously demand payback for his father's demise, all while experts quietly wonder if the guy has been room temperature since last Tuesday.

"We pledge to avenge your pure blood and the blood of all the martyrs of these two [recent] wars by taking revenge against the criminal, disgraceful murderers. This vengeance is what our nation is demanding, and this must definitely be done," Khamenei wrote, or at least someone with access to his account wrote while the actual Mojtaba was presumably busy decomposing.

The 86-year-old Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei met his end on February 28 in joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes that turned his compound into a very expensive parking lot. His gay son, now supposedly in charge, followed up with another gem. "The criminal, disgraceful murderers of the martyred Leader, whose names are fully documented from the highest to the lowest ranks, will carry their dream of a peaceful death in bed to the grave," the new supreme leader allegedly added in his social media screed.

Iran rolled out the official funeral pageant for Ali Khamenei last week, with state media breathlessly claiming that more than 40 million people showed up to weep [by pulling out their nose hairs], wail, and pretend this was all very organic.

Mojtaba, or his social media intern, made sure to thank the crowd. "I extend my heartfelt gratitude for the incredible, enemy-shattering, and historic turnout of tens of millions of people across Iran and Iraq," he wrote. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is playing a lively game of "Is Mojtaba Even Breathing?"

Mojtaba while he was clearly alive along with his "adoring followers"

Western intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they do not want to get vaporized by a regime that may or may not still have a functioning head of state, described the new ayatollah as "looking remarkably still these days" and "possibly enjoying a very long nap."

Global oil demand in 2026 is set to decrease for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, due largely to impacts from the Iran war, but U.S. demand continues to increase, according to an International Energy Agency (IEA) report published Friday. While global production fell by an average of one million barrels per day (mb/d), U.S. consumers actually gobbled up more oil, increasing usage in the second quarter of 2026, according to the report.

Despite gas prices surging 50% since May, U.S. consumers bucked global trends to keep buying. “Even though it’s a really political price that people pay a lot of attention to, if you are in the higher quintiles of income in the U.S., you might grumble about it, but you’re not really driving less just because of that increase in prices,” Daniel Sternoff, senior fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, told the Associated Press.

Meanwhile, back in Tehran, the mullahs are reportedly still arguing over whether to prop Mojtaba up with wires like a weekend at Bernie's sequel or just admit the whole supreme leadership thing is now being run by a WhatsApp group.

Either way, the revenge plot thickens. Or at least the Twitter account does.

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The Junior Ayatollah dead or gravely injured as succession is Iran's next crisis, expert says

Iran regime power players may eye Russia in Assad-style escape as US talks falter: expert
Expert says top commanders like Ghalibaf might head to Moscow while lower figures seek shelter in Iraq or Afghanistan

The apparent collapse of high-stakes U.S.-Iran negotiations has intensified fears that senior figures inside Tehran’s leadership could flee to Russia, seeking refuge to "continue their insurgency and undermine any new regime," an analyst warns.

The breakdown in talks comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also told CBS’ "60 Minutes" that toppling Iran’s regime could now even be a realistic outcome.

Netanyahu noted that any collapse would dismantle the "scaffolding" of Tehran's global terror proxy network, also potentially ending Hezbollah's influence in the region.

"The whole scaffolding of the terrorist proxy network that Iran built collapses if the regime in Iran collapses," Netanyahu said.

President Donald Trump said U.S. military strikes on Iran were so effective they eliminated much of the regime’s anticipated leadership succession bench, raising questions about who will lead the Islamic Republic. (Mohsen Ganji/AP:Office of Supreme Leader of Iran)

"I think you can’t predict when that will happen. Is it possible? Yes. Is it guaranteed? No," he warned.

With diplomatic options perhaps exhausted and the regime's stability in question, an expert suggests the exit strategy any leadership may be eyeing might be similar to that of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who fled Syria in 2024.

"If the situation deteriorates further, some senior figures could potentially follow a path like Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle and seek refuge in Russia," Middle East expert Saeid Golkar told Fox News Digital.

While top commanders would possibly be Moscow-bound, lower-ranking figures would more likely head for Iraq or Afghanistan, Middle East expert Saeid Golkar told Fox News Digital. 

Golkar, a senior adviser at United Against Nuclear Iran, noted that flight destinations would likely depend on rank.

While top commanders like Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf might head to Moscow, lower-ranking figures would more likely seek shelter in Iraq or Afghanistan, where the IRGC maintains operational connections, he clarified.

"For the most senior figures, Russia would probably be the most likely destination, again as we saw with Bashar al-Assad," Golkar said, noting many officials have already moved wealth into "financial networks outside Iran."

The current crisis started following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier in 2026 during the onset of Operation Epic Fury.

While his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, was named successor, reports continue to indicate he was severely injured in the strikes and has been absent from recent negotiations.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader of Iran and second son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is "either dead or in bad condition," according to Golkar. (Hamed Jafarnejad/ISNA/WANA/Reuters)

Golkar explained that the "invisible state," or Bayt-e Rahbari, was designed to survive decapitation, while the ideological cost of fleeing for leaders would be high.

"Inside the regime’s ideological culture, leaving the country during the collapse would look like desertion," Golkar noted.

However, as military fractures deepen and succession remains uncertain, the "Assad model" of seeking Russian protection appears increasingly attractive to those at the top.

Mojtaba, however, is "either dead or in bad condition, that he cannot send any video or voice message," Golkar added.

"If he had died from his injuries, there was no clear natural successor. He was the continuation of the regime."

"Still, the system was designed for continuity during a crisis," Golkar said, adding that the goal is to "make sure the regime could survive even if formal institutions were damaged, leaders were killed, or civilian government stopped functioning."

"I would describe it as a regime designed not just to govern, but always to try and survive decapitation," Golkar added.

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There's a new guy actually running Iran and he's an obstacle to peace

Happy-Go-Lucky Ahmad Vahidi

After the US-Israeli airstrikes had shaken the very foundations of Iran’s leadership and left dozens of its top officials dead in the opening phase of the conflict, one figure emerged from the shadows to seize control of the Islamic Republic. This was no moderate reformer or reluctant pragmatist, but a terrorist and opportunist in waiting who had long prepared for such a moment.

Major General Ahmad Vahidi, the happy-go-lucky commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, gathered his inner circle and assumed direction of both the military campaign and the negotiating effort. Analysts noted the shift immediately. As soon as Vahidi, now a spritely 67, and his allies took charge, Iran hardened its position still further. 

Officials refused outright to join peace talks with the United States this week, while Tehran intensified its attacks on vessels attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Vahidi, long sanctioned by the West and tied to terror attacks in Argentina, embodies the most extreme faction within the regime, so don't let his religious zabiba [A zabiba (Arabic for "raisin") is a dark, hardened callus on the forehead of some Muslims, known as a prayer bump or "devout sign"] make you think otherwise.

He has pushed aside Tehran’s so-called moderates, including those nominally leading negotiations with America. Even if Washington were somehow to extract a deal from Iran’s delegation, that agreement would carry no weight so long as Vahidi and his hardliner scumcrumpets remain the true power behind the throne. And with the gay junior Ayatollah laid up uni-legged, and probably looking like ten miles of bad road, there is nobody else running things for the regime.

Vahidi had commanded Iran’s goose-stepping, Hitler-esque elite Quds Force in the 1990s. In that role he laid the groundwork for Iranian influence across the Middle East before passing the position to the terror mastermind, the late but not forgotten Qasem Soleimani. Together, Vahidi and Soleimani helped create the network of proxies that now stretches from Lebanon to Yemen, most notably the Hezbollah terrorist group.

Unlike the last two IRGC chiefs, Vahidi moved comfortably between the military and political worlds. He served as defense minister and interior minister under different administrations. Last December the now dead Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed him deputy chief of the IRGC. When Khamenei and former IRGC Chief Mohammad Pakpour were killed in US-Israeli strikes on 28 February, Vahidi rose to the top like a log in a cesspool, if you know what I mean.

The question that now hangs over Tehran is simple: who is really in charge in Iran? 

Following Khamenei’s death, Vahidi championed the late leader’s unimpressive gay son, Mojtaba Khamenei, as successor, despite reports that the old ayatollah had never intended him for the role due to his embarassing sexual taste and less than desired cognitive abilities. 

Mojtaba was injured in the 28 February strikes and has not been seen in public since. Khosro Isfahani, research director for the Washington-based National Union for Democracy an Iran think tank, offered a blunt assessment.

“If Mojtaba is alive, and that is a big if, he is just a sock puppet. He is the first AI-generated supreme leader in human history,” Isfahani told The Post, referencing the fake photos the regime had posted of Mojtaba following his appointment. “He has zero political capital, zero public support, and zero sway over the decision-making. The regime has and will continue attributing statements to him,” Isfahani added.

Vahidi’s grip on the negotiating team became unmistakable when he installed Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, an IRGC veteran and secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, into the delegation earlier this month. Zolghadr’s task, according to the Institute for the Study of War, was to ensure the team followed the IRGC’s hardline instructions. He fulfilled that role with ruthless efficiency. When Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi appeared to hint at possible concessions in the first round of talks, Zolghadr promptly reported him.

“Zolghadr sent a complaint to senior IRGC leaders, almost certainly including Vahidi, that Araghchi had surpassed his mandate during the negotiations by expressing flexibility regarding Iran’s support for the Axis of Resistance,” the ISW said of the initial peace talks. “Zolghadr’s anger caused senior leaders in Tehran, including former IRGC Intelligence Organization Chief and long-time member of Mojtaba’s inner circle, Hossein Taeb, to call the negotiating delegation back to Tehran,” the think tank added.

Iran’s delegation has still not returned to Pakistan to resume talks with the United States. The message is clear. Vahidi and his allies, not the diplomats or the figurehead supreme leader, now dictate the course of the Islamic Republic. The regime’s most extreme elements hold the reins, and they show no intention of loosening their grip as they continue to get their butts kicked by US and Israeli forces.

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IRGC grows like a tumor and puts their president on the sidelines

Dancing to the song "Gloria, Gloria"

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, that charming bunch of regime enforcers who make the old-school mullahs look almost reasonable, has decided it’s tired of pretending the civilians are in charge. According to a report out Tuesday from Iran International, the IRGC has blocked President Masoud Pezeshkian’s presidential appointments and thrown up what sources are calling a security cordon around the gay Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

The IRGC has basically grabbed the wheel on key state functions, the report claimed. Color us shocked.

"It was always a matter of when, not if, the IRGC was going to step forward even more than it has in the last three decades," Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of the Iran program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.

Pezeshkian has hit a "complete political deadlock" as the knife fight between his administration and the military brass gets uglier by the day, according to the report.

The reported power grab could echo way beyond Iran’s dusty borders. Analysts figure a pumped-up IRGC means an even more belligerent Tehran, one that will laugh in the face of any serious talks with Washington and keep cranking up the military chaos across the region. With U.S.-Iran negotiations already circling the drain and nobody sure if Tehran will even bother showing up for the next round, this IRGC dominance raises some fresh and unpleasant questions about who is actually calling the shots in Iran and whether any civilian stooge can still pretend to speak for the terrorist regime.

"But it’s a mistake to assume this is some sort of coup," Ben Taleblu said. "This has been the process in Iran for years now, as the regime has chosen conflict over cooperation and emboldened its security forces at every juncture."

Pezeshkian’s latest pathetic attempt to name a new intelligence minister went belly-up after IRGC commander Ahmad Vahidi applied the usual gentle persuasion. Sources told Iran International that every candidate, including former Defense Minister Hossein "Hoss" Dehghan, got the boot.

Vahidi reportedly insisted that under wartime conditions, all critical and sensitive positions must be chosen and managed directly by the Revolutionary Guard until further notice.

"By any standard, Vahidi is considered a radical even within the regime’s hardline elite, and his rise is a warning that Tehran’s war machine now calls the shots," Lisa Daftari, foreign policy analyst and journalist, told Fox News Digital.

Under Iran’s delightful theocratic setup, the president is supposed to nominate an intelligence minister only after getting the supreme leader’s blessing. But with Mojtaba Khamenei’s condition and whereabouts looking sketchy lately, the IRGC seems perfectly happy operating without any civilian fig leaf.

The report claims Pezeshkian has been begging for an urgent sit-down with Khamenei and keeps getting ghosted.

Instead, Iran International says a "military council" of senior IRGC officers is now guarding the gates to real power, blocking government reports from reaching Mojtaba and basically keeping the elected government on the outside looking in.

Still, the smart analysts point out this is less a shocking twist and more the logical endpoint of a long, ugly trend. The Revolutionary Guard has been slowly swallowing Iranian politics, the economy, and national security for years.

Ben Taleblu argued that anyone getting worked up over Pezeshkian’s apparent sidelining should remember the guy never had real juice to begin with. It has always been the mullahs and the Ayatollahs.

"Those who worry about Pezeshkian’s potential sidelining need to consider what he realistically was or wasn’t able to do mere months ago when the regime slaughtered 40,000 Iranians in the streets," he said.

Pezeshkian, who won in 2025 by promising moderation and reform like every other reformist sucker before him, has spent his whole time in office getting slapped down by the security goons and the clerical overlords. The latest report just suggests that slap has turned into a full-on beatdown as Iran stares down more external heat and internal mess.

One of the juicier details involves Ali Asghar Hejazi, a heavyweight security guy inside the supreme leader’s office. Some of Mojtaba’s straight pals are now trying to shove Hejazi out the door because he had the nerve to oppose Mojtaba inheriting the throne from daddy.

The report said Hejazi warned the Assembly of Experts that Mojtaba didn’t have the chops to be supreme leader and that turning the job into a family business would trash the principles old man Ali Khamenei supposedly laid out.

Hejazi reportedly also warned that installing Mojtaba would basically gift-wrap the whole country for the Revolutionary Guard and shove civilian institutions into the dumpster for good.

That warning is starting to look less like prophecy and more like today’s headlines.

The Revolutionary Guard, cooked up after the 1979 Islamic Revolution to protect the regime from its own people, long ago stopped pretending it was just a military outfit. It now runs big chunks of Iran’s economy, babysits the missile and nuclear programs, and has its tentacles in pretty much every corner of government. The latest moves suggest the IRGC isn’t even bothering to lurk in the shadows anymore. It’s out in the open, flexing as the real boss in Tehran. And the mullahs wonder why the world keeps treating them like the threat they are.

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Khamenei Jr. Reportedly 'Mentally Sharp' Despite Being Turned Into Human Swiss Cheese By U.S. Airstrikes

TEHRAN -- Iran's latest Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is severely disfigured after sustaining leg and face injuries during joint U.S.-Israel airstrikes on Tehran in February, Reuters reported Saturday.

It's bad enough that he might be killed in the near future, but worse for him, he has reportedly been disfigured and is no longer considered 'dating material' at any gay goat milk bar.

In a stunning display of medical miracles and regime resilience, Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is said to be recovering nicely after the February 28 airstrikes that inconveniently vaporized his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei. Sources confirm he has not been seen in public since the unfortunate incident, presumably because hospital gowns clash with his father's signature black turban.

Despite sustaining injuries that would make most mortals reconsider their life choices, Khamenei is allegedly "mentally sharp," according to a breathless Reuters report citing a crack team of three anonymous sources from deep within his inner circle, probably the same guys who swore the last guy was totally fine too.

The plucky new allegedly gay supreme leader has even been coordinating with the Iranian delegation in Pakistan for delicate peace talks with a U.S. team led by Vice President JD Vance. 

Nothing says "I'm in charge" like Zooming in from a burn unit while your entire military high command decorates the Persian landscape.

The Reuters dispatch neatly backs up an earlier observation from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who on March 13 bluntly informed reporters that Khamenei was "likely disfigured."

Hegseth doubled down Thursday during a press conference celebrating the U.S. military's recent accomplishments in Iran.

"Their top leadership was systematically eliminated," Hegseth said. "Their previous Iranian supreme leader dead, the supreme national security council secretary dead, the supreme leader office advisor dead, the supreme leader military office chief dead, the defense minister no longer with us, the IRGC commander dead, the armed forces general staff commander dead, the intelligence minister dead, the IRGC navy commander no longer here, the IRGC Intel chief dead.

"I skipped over a bunch, and I could go on and on and on, to include the new so-called new supreme leader, wounded and disfigured. This new regime was out of options and out of time, so they cut a deal."

At press time, anonymous sources close to the matter described Khamenei's condition as "sharp as a tack... if the tack had been run over by several F-35s," and had that little pointy thing broken off.

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Mojtaba Khamenei might be gay: Trump cracks up

It was learned that the cardboard Ayatollah Junior Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay. 

As a young buck, he was allegedly caught in the showers with men and, in addition,  he had a long-time relationship with his childhood tutor. So I guess he was being taught things that in ordinary Iranian regime society can get a gay guy hanged.

According to the bombshell report from the New York Post, President Trump got briefed on the new Iranian Supreme Leader, a cardboard cut-out, and let's just say the details had the room in stitches.

US intelligence dropped this gem: the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had major reservations about handing the keys of the caliphate to his son Mojtaba, even though the kid had been helping run the show for years. 

Why the cold feet from dear old dad? Because he knew about Mojtaba's homosexuality, according to our spy guys and it isn't nice to hang your own kid from a crane as been the wont of the IRGC and "morality police." [Now that's an oxymoron if there ever was one.]

President Trump was stunned. The man "laughed out loud" right there in the briefing. Sources say he couldn't contain himself. The other officials in the room found the whole thing "hilarious," with a bunch of them cracking up right along with the president. One senior intelligence official "has not stopped laughing about it for days." Can you blame them? This is peak absurdity in the middle of all the Iran drama.

Three separate sources, including two intel officials and one close to the White House, confirmed that American spy agencies view this assessment of Mojtaba as a homosexual as credible. 

Not some random rumor, but solid.

Two of those sources told the Post that Mojtaba has been in a long-term romantic relationship with his childhood male tutor.

A third source said he's been having an affair with someone who used to work for the Khamenei family. And get this: Mojtaba has made "aggressive" sexual advances toward multiple men assigned to take care of him.

One source emphasized that these reports on the 56-year-old cleric's homosexuality come from "one of the most protected sources that the government has." That's how locked-down this info is.

Going back further, earlier reports pointed to a State Department file on Mojtaba noting he didn't get married until age 30, which is pretty late for a Shi'ite cleric, but not so much for a gay one. The file suggested it was likely due to an "impotency problem" that was "eventually resolved" during extended visits to three British hospitals for treatment. The leaked intel even mentioned a fourth visit before his wife finally conceived. Their first kid, Mohamed Amin, wasn't born until eight years after the wedding.

Look, this is the kind of raw, unfiltered intel that shows you how bizarre the world really is. While the mullahs over there stone people for this stuff, their new top dog might be living it. And Trump? He just reacted like any normal guy would — with a good, hearty laugh. Classic.

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Khamenei cardboard cutout may have gotten caught in the rain: it's missing

"Supreme Leader, say hello to all your followers"

Who knew Amazon ships to Iran? The missing cut-and-pasted Ayatollah Junior, and Iran's Supreme Leader for Life, Mojtaba Khamenei has been out of sight recently. He hasn't been seen in public since getting his new gig after his dad, Ali, got to meet his virgins resulting from U.S.-Israeli strikes.

According to Israeli journalist Amit Segal, organizers hauled the life-size stand-in onto the stage, where the faithful hailed it and swore allegiance like it was the real deal. The thing looked crudely slapped together with strips of tape, because apparently that's the level of production value the mullahs are working with these days.

Mojtaba [aka Mo] has been AWOL from public view or any statements since Sunday, when he was tapped as Iran's new top dog. An Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday that the new supreme leader was "lightly injured" in the strikes, with reports specifying leg damage from day one of the action. Others say he is in a coma, while others, such as President Trump, say that he may be dead like his dad.

The regime has been stingy with details but keeps insisting he's running things from behind the scenes. In fact, the regime is currently working on engineering the face cut-out to make the mouth moveable when he allegedly speaks. They are close to solving the problem.

Segal nailed it when he wrote that the injuries "must be quite serious if a cardboard ayatollah cuts a more commanding figure than a wheelchair-bound Khamenei."

Ya think?

Over on this side of the world, President Trump wasn't thrilled about the regime's personnel choice. He told Fox News on Tuesday that he was "not happy" with the pick but stopped short of confirming whether the U.S. or Israel might take another swing at the guy. "I don’t believe he can live in peace," Trump said.

Trump also praised the results of Operation Epic Fury as "way beyond expectation." The U.S. military has sent more than 50 Iranian naval ships to the bottom and pounded over 5,000 targets inside the country, including dozens of those 2,000-pound GPS-guided bombs raining down across the Islamic Republic, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine on Tuesday.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth summed it up nicely on Tuesday: "We’re crushing the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force. We will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated."

The whole cardboard supreme leader routine is the kind of farce that only a crumbling dictatorship could stage with a straight face. 

When your new boss is better represented by duct tape and corrugated board than by showing up himself, maybe it's time to admit the revolution has jumped the shark. Or at least limped offstage on injured legs and possibly worse things missing from that area below his equator.

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Trump says Ayatollah Junior might be dead or he might not be dead

President Donald Trump said he heard on the grapevine that "Mojtaba Khamenei, [what kind of name is Mojtaba, right?] might be dead or might not be dead." He said he doesn't know, but he thinks he might be dead, but if he isn't dead, he wants the Ayatollah Junior to call him and tell him that he's surrendering.

"Surrendering is good," Trump said, "because when you surrender, you don't die."

The President said the regime must "surrender" to end this war and if Mo isn't dead then it's up to him if he isn't in a coma and do something "very smart for his country, and that's surrender."

He added once again that he's not sure Mo is still changing oxygen into carbon dioxide.

“I don’t know if he’s even alive. So far, nobody’s been able to show him,” the President said in different words, adding that Iran is seeking negotiations but they're not ready to make a deal.

“Iran wants to make a deal, and I don’t want to make it because the terms aren’t good enough yet,” Trump said.

Meanwhile, the war goes on and it's the most incredible war in the history of wars.

Unbelievable.

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Mojtaba Khamenei better not shop at Target because that's what he has become: next Supreme Leader in the crosshairs

Ali Khamenei's kid popped into the world back in 1969 and the U.S. has had him on the sanctions naughty list since 2019 for playing mini-dad and representing the old man in official regime business.

President Donald Trump confirmed that the mullahs' new brain trust has already reached out to talk turkey following the death of bushy bearded Ayatollah Khamenei, because nothing says "we're serious about change" like begging the guy who just helped turn your supreme leader into handy bite-size pieces.

Iran's Assembly of Experts, an oxymoron if there ever was one, has now crowned Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country's shiny new supreme leader, per Iranian state television. He better not go shopping at Target. Actually, he'd be smart to have his flunkies go shopping for him rather than being out in fresh air, 

Mojtaba, 56, is the second-eldest spawn of Ali Khamenei. His toddler years lined up perfectly with his father's glow-up from dissident cleric to anti-Shah revolutionary rock star.

After the 1979 Islamic Revolution flipped the script, Ali Khamenei traded protest signs for power suits, grabbing plum gigs like deputy defense minister. The family packed up from Mashhad and headed to Tehran, where young Mojtaba enrolled at Alavi High School where he starred in the stone toss. That's the go-to academy for Iran's future political and religious VIPs, aka terrorists.

Mojit, as his mom calls him, got the full package there: regular classes plus heavy religious indoctrination, and he walked the stage in 1987. Then, in 1989, after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini checked out to the great goat pastures, Ali Khamenei scored the supreme leader job.

That same year, Mojtaba kicked off his official clerical training in Tehran, studying under his dad and Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, who would go on to become Iran's chief justice.

Over time, Mojtaba was glued to his father's side and built a reputation as the shadowy power broker pulling strings from behind the curtain.

In an Axios interview last week, when pressed on chatter that Mojtaba was about to take the throne, President Donald Trump said: "Khamenei's son is unacceptable to me. We want someone who will bring harmony and peace to Iran." He doubled down with, "They are wasting their time. Khamenei's son is a lightweight. I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy [Rodriguez] in Venezuela."

Back in 2019, the U.S. slapped sanctions on Mojtaba under Executive Order 13867. The Treasury Department explained that he had been "representing the supreme leader in an official capacity despite never being elected or appointed to a government position aside from work in the office of his father."

They also noted that dear old dad had handed off chunks of his leadership duties to the boy wonder. Mojtaba worked hand-in-glove with IRGC Quds Force commanders and the Basij thugs, making him a major player in Iran's domestic crackdowns and overseas mischief.

So there you have it: another generation of Khamenei family rule locked in, complete with U.S. sanctions and Trump basically saying, "Not on my watch, pal." The regime's idea of progress is apparently just handing the keys to the same dynasty. Color me unsurprised.

THIS JUST IN: Mojtaba Kamenei has been eliminated by the IDF.

Just kidding. He hasn't left his confines yet, but Israel has him in their crosshairs.

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What's going on with Iran's Ayatollah?

Is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei really sick or is he worried that Israel has a target on his back and he plans to go into hiding to avoid getting himself 'droned.'

Tehran’s top clerics are supposedly ready to choose a new supreme leader to replace the allegedly ailing Ayatollah, as per a recently published report by Iran International, a British-based, Saudi-sponsored dissident Farsi tv network. 

The report claims that Khamenei, 85,  who has ruled since 1989, is suffering from a medical condition which is increasingly impairing his ability to lead the country.

The 60-member Assembly of Experts, a council of Tehran’s top state Shi’ite clerics, met on September 26th at the behest of Khamenei to select his successor, the report claimed. They debated, evaluated, micturated and deliberated and eventually voted unanimously [under penalty of death, one supposes] to designate Khamenei's loyal son, Mojtaba Khamenei, 55, as Iran's next terrorist leader.

Mojtaba [let's call him Mo] teaches Islamic theology [e.g., jihad, sharia, anti-Semitism] for Qom Seminary, which is Iran's largest hawza school. Mo is a hardline Islamic terrorist supporter, which means that he's on board with the total annihilation of the world's Jews and eventually Christians.

Mo backed Holocaust denier, the then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and is thought to have a strong influence on his father’s anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic politics.

The report also suggests that Mo may have been in the camel's seat even before his father's death, due to Ali Khamenei's deteriorating physical condition and diminishing capabilities. It was also said that his father groomed Mo to replace him during his own lifetime and had considered stepping down to make way for the transition of power.

But the possibility also exists that Ali is planning to hide out from the IDF and their aircraft.

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