🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump wanted regime change. His own CIA told him killing Khamenei might make things worse. He did it anyway.
The assessment was produced two weeks ago. If Khamenei dies, hardline IRGC commanders likely take over, men whose entire identity is military, not theological.… https://t.co/uXUynjq4F1 pic.twitter.com/79nIMfIzb7
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 28, 2026
The assessment was produced two weeks ago. If Khamenei dies, hardline IRGC commanders likely take over, men whose entire identity is military, not theological.
Men with no interest in diplomacy, no clerical legitimacy to protect, and no political pressure valve.
Khamenei is 85. He’s a cleric. He operates through religious authority, political maneuvering, and calculated restraint. The IRGC operates through guns.
This is the Iraq lesson America never learned. Kill Saddam, get ISIS. Destabilize the top… and unleash something worse from below.
The CIA didn’t say don’t do it. They said: don’t assume killing the leader ends the regime. Iran is a system, not held together by one man.
The Supreme Leader is the face of it. The IRGC is the skeleton.
Trump told the Iranian people tonight to seize the moment and rise up.
But if Khamenei is dead and the IRGC takes control, the people rising up won’t be facing an aging ayatollah.
They could be facing soldiers with nothing left to lose.