Can someone just kill the Ayatollah already. It's just embarrassing to see him walking around like that in his dumb power robes that mean nothing.

— 🇮🇷 To those who are confused, asking if Iran's Supreme Leader has full authority:

Yes, the Supreme Leader in Iran TECHNICALLY has full authority, especially regarding foreign policy and national security matters. He is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, and the highest political and religious authority in the country. He is the Wali al-Faqih (Guardian Jurist), somewhat like the Pope for Catholics back in the day, having both spiritual and political power.

However, Ayatollah Khamenei, the current Supreme Leader for the past 35 years, rarely ever uses his executive power. If he wants to, he can issue a 'Hokm-e Hokoomati' (Executive Order) which must be obeyed and carried out by the government, but this rarely happens.

In reality, the Supreme Leader mostly acts as a 'guide'. He publicly gives his opinion about something, and the current administration is expected to act roughly in line with the Supreme Leader's vision, even if they are not an explicit unequivocal order.

For example, in the case of Ismael Haniyeh's assassination, the Supreme Leader, both privately and publicly, claimed that Iran must carry out a 'blood vengeance' and retaliate for this crime. As mentioned before, this statement mostly acts as a guideline, not a direct order. Khamenei does this because if he signs too many executive orders, he will be seen as a dictator, especially by the more liberal factions of Iranian society. He also believes that the President, due to his democratic election, has a mandate of the people.

In the case of Haniyeh's assassination, the new Pezeshkian administration, despite being clearly instructed to retaliate, decided to make a compromise with the US instead, and to retaliate at a later time in exchange for a ceasefire in Gaza. Obviously, this didnt't happen, and now many Iranians are pissed off that the Supreme Leader's instructions were bypassed.

For the record, the Supreme Leader could have easily chosen to simply directly order the strike on Israel, nobody could have disobeyed it, but it would have been perceived as undermining the new administration, which was clearly opposed to a strike in the immediate timeframe.

Ayatollah Khamenei has always taken the position of being a 'concerned father'; he gives the government and the President a lot of freedom to do whatever they want, even if it goes against his guidelines, because he hopes they will realize that relying on the West simply does not work. Clearly, even after the past 45 years, the Reformists have not yet come to this realization, unlike the 'Hardliners' such as Raeesi and Jalili.

It is possible that after this incident, the Supreme Leader will still decide to directly order a strike against Israel after all, regardless of Pezeshkian's wishes. He was simply trying to keep the national unity.

@Middle_East_Spectator

This is worse than Trump copes

— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iranians have gathered in front of the Supreme National Security Council

They are protesting against President Pezeshkian's decision to ignore the Supreme Leader's directive to retaliate for the assassination of Ismael Haniyeh.

They demand the implementation of the Supreme Leader's orders, and for the Iranian President to stop relying on the promises of Western powers. They shouted death to Israel and death to the US.

@Middle_East_Spectator

I doubt that's what's happening

People who truly love the resistance and Iran will tell them their failures

If you are blindly in love with them and when they keep failing you keep supporting them you only contribute to the problem.

Devotion to a resistance doesn't mean accepting it when it is weak and unresponsive. Those who actually support Palestine and Iran should criticize them harshly for their recent behaviour.

If you want Palestine to stop being genocided and for Israel to lose more control in the region you cannot support an unresponsive and weak Iran. You have to push them to be responsive. I imagine that many Iranians and most Palestinians are very fucking angry with Iran and with good reason to be.

Do you slap a boxer on the back and tell him to go into the ring when he's acting scared and like a pussy? No.

What do Hasan Nasrullah and every single white nationalist in America have in common?

They spend their entire life talking about fighting jews and not doing anything.

⚡️🇮🇷 Two statements were issued by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, one of which was directly quoted by a French media outlet and another by the Ministry itself.

1) "Iran does not want war, but it will not fear it if it comes to it"

2) "The Lebanese and Palestinian fighters have the ability to defend themselves." - This is the statement quoted by AFP.

@medmannews

Translation from the usual Iranian doublespeak: "You're on your own, faggots. Not Iran's problem. Toodles!"

She completely lost it

❌🇮🇷 Iran’s President Pezeshkian has proven himself to be a mindless simpleton surrounded by demons.

He must either change course or resign.

Nigga please, Pezeshkian is bad sure, but stop blame shifting from the hundred other doddering old fools that run Iran.