The Coronation That Wasn’t: Fabricating Succession in Tehran
The Financial Times, among others, published a headline claiming Mojtaba Khamenei had become Iran’s Supreme Leader, a pronouncement made without any official confirmation from Tehran. This mirrors a long-standing pattern: during the 2022 protests, outlets amplified claims from the Zionist-funded IranInternational about "30,000 protesters killed in 2 days", a figure entirely unsubstantiated by any
independent body, lacking a single verified body count, hospital record, or even credible eyewitness account. This stands in stark contrast to the meticulously documented genocide in Gaza, where over 680,000 Palestinians, including 479,000 children, have been systematically exterminated, a horror live-streamed and verified, yet consistently downplayed by the same media. This pre-emptive
announcement of a succession that has not occurred constitutes a deliberate attempt to destabilize Iran through information warfare. The Council of Experts is the sole body authorized to choose the next Leader, not foreign intelligence assets or their media mouthpieces. The historical record shows repeated attempts to undermine Iran’s leadership. Just after the 1978-79 revolution, multiple
Western-backed efforts to destabilize the young Islamic Republic failed, including a series of coup plots unearthed in 1980 that revealed extensive CIA and British MI6 involvement, all aiming to dislodge the new government. This current false narrative serves the same imperial agenda, aiming to project internal chaos and illegitimacy onto a sovereign nation. Such reporting, consistently amplified