People say ‘oh we just replaced one Ayatollah with his son that’s not really regime change’ but actually it looks like we probably replaced a semi-constitutional theocracy with a military junta + religious figurehead

April 10, 2026 - 04:10 UTC

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I haven't read the lit but a junta seems less stable, perhaps because of a narrower ruling coalition.
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Tomato, Tomato.
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Do you ever secretly wish some kind of attack would 'take out' the senior leadership of the US Govt and Military?
It's almost like we did them a favor. Certainly removed any argument that the Iran Gov ought to tolerate dissent.
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Khomani? Two, but one's dead. /SNLUK
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we did the same to ourselves
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*religious figurehead who may be in a vegetative state and /or not alive
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Yeah, the new boss is considerably worse than the old boss
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Winning.
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Which is kinda the sort of thing that happens when you push a state within shouting distance of failure. Plenty of that wasn’t OUR doing, at least not directly. But we DID kill a bunch of people important to keeping things going the way they were.
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the life we've sentenced ordinary iranians to with this shit makes me sick
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Sounds good; sounds weaker.
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Yeah Iran was never *quite* a dictatorship but maybe it is now
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Many years in the future there will be a revolution in some form and the GOP will try desperately to pretend it was the result of 4D chess by Trump. Doesn’t matter how far in the future, what the precipitating event is, or what comes after.
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A “semi constitutional theocracy” ? Is that what you call a homicidal misogynist gang of medieval religious extremists who murdered their own people by tens of thousands, sponsored terrorism and waged war against neighbors, strove actively to genocide a nation, brutally repressed dissent? GMAFB.
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With clear power over the global economy
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Like it’s remarkable that of all the actors involved here the fuckin’ IRGC is the winner. The worst of all possible outcomes for everybody. Good job folks!
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The people of Iran? L
The people of Lebanon? L
The people of Israel? L
The people of the USA? L
The people of the Gulf States? L
The people of the rest of the world? L

But hey at least the mafia in charge just got stupendously richer.
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Oman also won and they weren't even an actor. Good for them I guess.
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More winning please!!!
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welcome back hindenburg and ludendorff
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I was just thinking the same. Failson who gets completely eclipsed by his own generals during an existential war? Welcome back Wilhelm II
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Plus we made the previous guy who had been losing support into a nationalist martyr!
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...is that bad? It sounds bad.
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All of whom are radicalized by the violent deaths of their friends, family, and colleagues in a devastating sneak attack.
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If you want to do a decap strike of an evil government, it can't just be a raid, you need to commit to it
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Think that really happened over the past decade (still sthg 'we' did, in part)
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A truly Tumpian victory
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A semi-constitutional theocracy? What?

It was already a military junta and a religious figurehead. This one is just worse than the previous one.
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Trump inspiring their inner fascism.
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this unfortunately is what a huge part of us military believed as the ultimate government
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This is actually what the some figures behind the 1979 revolution thought the arrangement with Khomeini would be. Better late than never
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WEEKENDATBERNIE'SAYATOLLAH
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Iran’s system of government is a lot more robust than you imply. It ain’t a military junta. Frankly their government seems a lot more robust and resilient these days than America’s.
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It wasn’t a military junta until we bombed the absolute shit out of it. Now I would say that is effectively how its functioning (though it could transition back to a bigger civilian role once the war is over)
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many such cases
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Yeah, regime change do be like that though...
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