Khamenei’s assassination is unprecedented, but regime collapse is not guaranteed; succession is underway, and the war has widened.
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Khamenei’s assassination triggers a war-time succession; the IRGC is central, and the real question is whether Iran remains a clerical system or pivots to military rule.
Khamenei’s death leaves a historic vacuum; the most likely outcome is an IRGC takeover, turning a clerical state into a military one.
Khamenei is dead, killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike; Iran teeters as succession and regime survival hang in the balance.
Erdogan’s cabinet reshuffle aims to weaponize state institutions against the opposition and clear a path for his son’s succession.
Khamenei’s succession could pave the way for a “Third Republic” led by a military strongman from the IRGC. Such a transition from clerical to authoritarian-military rule would reflect the regime’s failing legitimacy and the erosion of its founding ideology.