Mojtaba becomes leader, and expectations he will be killed soon

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0:01 Hello. Monday, 18 Esfand 1404, March 9, 2026. The tenth day of the war has passed, with the intense American and Israeli air strikes escalating. Air strikes are continuing in Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, Shiraz and Zahedan, and numerous sites have been attacked. Tehran in particular was under fire, and so was Karaj, where, according to people, the explosions produced an orange glow, and for perhaps kilometers around, windows either shattered or

0:56 cracked, the noise was heard, and even the ground shook. Although it is not exactly clear which site was targeted, it is said that the depot of the Mabna company, which mainly held solid missile fuel, exploded; there are other speculations as well. In any case, this war, in which yesterday the attack on a fuel depot in the city of Tehran created a cloud of black, toxic smoke that polluted the air so badly that even the sun could not be seen, has increased the pressure of the war on the people.

1:57 Alongside the intensifying attacks, there are also the many statements by Mr. Trump. Since the start of the war, Mr. Trump has said several different kinds of things. Once he said they were looking for someone inside the regime; once he talked about overthrowing the regime; he spoke of unconditional surrender, to which many said, well, then you have to send ground forces, but he set that aside. In any case, with all these different statements, today, in an interview with CBS in America, he said the war will end soon, but at the Republican club

2:52 he again said other things. Although Mr. Trump's remarks caused the price of oil, which had reached $120 a barrel, to drop below $100, it is said that with the Strait of Hormuz closed, especially by the Islamic Republic's drones, which have effectively halted shipping traffic, oil prices are expected to rise again. The Islamic Republic's strategy, which is to strike the Arab countries of the region in order to put pressure on America through those Arab countries, and likewise to drive up the price of oil, has caused

3:54 gasoline prices at the pumps in America to rise as well, and criticism of Mr. Trump to intensify. Meanwhile, in Israel, the Islamic Republic's ballistic missiles, some of which carry cluster warheads that in effect break apart into 60 bomblets and hit various locations, have so far left 11 dead by one account, 13 dead by another, and dozens wounded. Of all the missiles fired by the Islamic Republic, it is said that 10 of them got through Israel's air defense, its missile defense, and this has put pressure on Israel.

4:59 In any case, this war, whose fire is targeting the factories of Iran's military industries, the missile industry, the drone industry, even the Army Aviation center, that is, the ground forces' helicopters in Isfahan, and generally the entire military capability of the Islamic Republic, and in which Israel has even put attacks on police stations and numerous regime centers on its agenda: it is still not clear what strategy America is pursuing, where the war will lead, and how it will end politically.

5:53 Israel's strategy, however, seems clear: it is using the opportunity that has arisen to destroy the entire military capability and the structures of the regime, something that could also leave Iran exposed to attacks by its neighbors. But the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei as the third leader of the Islamic Republic is another matter, which was of course predictable, though it was said there was a struggle over it. They collected signatures from the Assembly of Experts in absentia,

6:50 took a vote, and Mojtaba Khamenei was confirmed as leader. By an Assembly of Experts at which 59 members were present, while the rest had either died, several of them, or were absent from the vote, he became a leader of whom, so far, nothing has been seen except a short video in which he said his classes were suspended. Although today the regime's media began promoting him, and the IRGC's news agencies made films, he himself is still absent and has made no public appearance,

7:42 to the point that it is said he may be severely wounded, and some have even speculated that he may be dead and that they are in fact putting on a show. In any case, Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of Ali Khamenei, who is 56 years old, is someone who has had a hand in many of Khamenei's crimes. He entered the activities of his father's office from perhaps 1378 [1999], and that marked his entry into the arena of politics and intelligence. He completed his preliminary seminary studies under people like Mesbah Yazdi, and for a long time, perhaps

8:40 more than 15 years, he has been seeking to become leader. His first appearance and interference was in 1384 [2005] with the election of Ahmadinejad against Karroubi and Hashemi Rafsanjani, which at that time led to Karroubi's complaint, in which he told Khamenei that his aghazadeh [privileged son] had interfered in the election. And of course Khamenei said, "He is an Agha himself, not an aghazadeh." From then on came his support for Ahmadinejad, who, when he was at the municipality, had done him favors and given contracts benefiting Mojtaba's inner circle. For a second term, with Mojtaba Khamenei's support,

9:41 he continued as president. In 1388 [2009], the unexpected development for Mojtaba was the candidacy of Engineer Mousavi, which disrupted his propaganda apparatus, which had intended to focus on the corruption of, for example, Hashemi and others. For that reason, the people's protests, which at first had bewildered the regime, so much so that Khamenei was taken to Mashhad out of fear, were suppressed by Mojtaba, who took the wheel of the crackdown. It was not without reason that the people, upon realizing this, chanted slogans against Mojtaba Khamenei in the streets for the first time, saying, "May you die before you see the leadership, Mojtaba." And at that same time it was being said that Mojtaba was in fact connected with Russia as well.

10:41 But from the moment Ahmadinejad started kicking back and tried to take control of the intelligence apparatus, he effectively came under the blows of Taeb, who is the Beria of the Islamic Republic regime and has always been at Mojtaba's side, during the second term. From then on Mojtaba set about forming an office around himself, which became known as the "Markaz" office. He brought in a number of Intelligence Protection people, and from there his encroachment on the intelligence apparatus became complete. He also began dismissing and appointing people at various levels of the IRGC and the Friday prayer leaders, taking control of the state radio and television, and all of this was done with

11:38 his father's support, to the extent that Hashemi Rafsanjani, too, can be considered a victim of Mojtaba's premature rise to power. There are also strong suspicions that Raisi's death made him a victim of Mojtaba becoming leader, and likewise the ousting of Sadegh Larijani from the head of the judiciary. Mojtaba, who is now backed by part of the IRGC, people like Ahmad Vahidi, Ghalibaf and others, and who also has a group of rent-seekers and thieves who have been raising money for him for a long time, and who has his hands on money, is taking over at the head of Khamenei's office, in conditions where many of

12:39 the threads of power are there, an office in which he has acted for years as the number two man, and he also has his own particular network. Today the regime had tried to organize marches of allegiance to him in all corners of Iran, and despite all its efforts, it could not bring out more than a few thousand people in the various cities. In Tehran, by busing people in from the surrounding areas and with heavy mobilization, the crowd was larger, which of course the regime portrays as many times bigger. And an interesting point, reported by eyewitnesses: in Shiraz, cooking oil was distributed among the people who had been brought in,

13:37 and in Tehran, too, containers full of cooking oil were seen in several places. As a friend put it, this time Sandis juice has given way to cooking oil, and Mojtaba is a leader who comes to power on cooking oil. Yet everyone is waiting for him to be killed, and while his father's leadership lasted 37 years, many believe that Mojtaba may not even make it to 37 days, and may perhaps be killed within 37 hours, and the earth will be rid of his existence. In hope of victory for Iran and Iranians.