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US Bombs the "Assembly of Experts" As It Attempts to Choose a New Ayatollah

I mean, come on. Even if you're a pro-Iran antisemite like Tucker Carlson or Megyn Kelly, you have to admit it's pretty funny to bomb the "Assembly of Experts" as they debate who should be the next Ayatollah to be killed within days.

As Iran's ruling clerics moved to fill the power vacuum left by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death, Israeli warplanes struck at the heart of the regime's leadership -- targeting a gathering reportedly convened to choose his successor.

Multiple outlets reported Wednesday that the Israeli Air Force hit a site in the city of Qom where members of Iran's powerful Assembly of Experts had assembled. The 88-member clerical body is constitutionally responsible for appointing the country's supreme leader, and according to Fox News, the strike came as votes were being counted to name Khamenei's replacement.

Iran's semi-official Mehr News Agency claimed the structure struck overnight was an outdated building no longer used by the assembly. Images circulating online from Qom show a heavily damaged structure reduced to rubble.

Khamenei's death Saturday triggered immediate constitutional procedures requiring the Assembly of Experts to act "in the shortest time possible" to select a new leader. Iran's ISNA news agency reported that the body had indicated the process "won't take long." Still, Reuters noted that officials may delay announcing a successor amid fears that any newly elevated figure would quickly become a target for U.S. or Israeli forces.

Trump also announced the complete destruction of Iran's Gulf of Oman fleet.

Iran's naval footprint in the Gulf of Oman has been wiped out, according to United States Central Command, which announced Monday that every Iranian warship positioned in the waterway at the start of Operation Epic Fury has now been destroyed.

On the third day of the campaign, the command posted a blunt update: "Two days ago, the Iranian regime had 11 ships in the Gulf of Oman, today they have ZERO."

The message was unmistakable. Tehran's long-running harassment of commercial vessels in the region, CENTCOM said, is over. "Freedom of maritime navigation has underpinned American and global economic prosperity for more than 80 years. U.S. forces will continue to defend it."

I don't know if that means their entire fleet. Do they have a separate Strait of Hormuz fleet?

One of Iran's only working weapons is its fleet of Shahid drones. (At least when Israel isn't stealing them to make false flag attacks on Tucker's beloved Qatar.)

The ship that carried these drones, for use in naval warfare, was sunk.

It's a tough day for Tucker Qatarlson:

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BREAKING: Qatar has launched a war against IRGC in Iran

Qatari fighter jets are carrying out strikes across Iran.

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🚨 🇮🇷 CONFIRMED: Parliament in Iran has been destroyed in the recent round of airstrikes

Didn't these already fail completely in Venezuela?

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