WTAF? 🍊 killed all the Iran replacement candidates?

[deminks]

Awesome. Just awesome.

— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) 2026-03-02T03:14:17.098Z

Awesome. Just awesome.

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Insert is a report from Jonathan Karl stating that 🍊 told him that he had candidates lined up in Iran but they were all killed in the first strike.

Did AI tell them to do that or did they do that on their own?

[unblock]

1. To state the obvious, killing the regime change replacements is the opposite of "so successful"

Really it's more of a debacle, catastrophe, or fiasco.

Or in military terms, FUBAR.

[Cha]

19. Nobody Dare Tell Stupid that.. Unless it's

the Patriots.

[moonscape]

2. He meant line of succession

to Khamenei I assume.

[AZJonnie]

17. Yes. Trump is not saying the people HE "lined up" were killed.

Don't know where that assumption in the OP came from

Also, key words "is saying" which of course means it's guaranteed bullshit.

[moonscape]

18. It was sloppy reporting

by Jonathan Karl, giving the wrong impression. I saw the clip this came from just now, in another DU thread, where Karl’s body language gave the wrong impression. He didn’t clarify.

Still, even for T, saying success we took out our own plans would be weird!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221061298

[gab13by13]

3. I have a great idea,

Since Jared Kushner was the guy tasked with creating peace in the ME, why doesn't Krasnov issue an EO and let the Iranian people know that Kushner is going to be President of Iran, no negotiations.

Kushner's first edict will be to proclaim that Iran is now a secular government, no mixing of religion with state seeing as how bad it is turning out in the US.

Krasnov said that Jared will be greeted with rose petals and a statue of him in downtown Tehran.

[vapor2]

14. Hilarious but maybe even a possibility .

Looks like Jared has failed his mission however.

[multigraincracker]

4. I hear Shah Jr. is available

[Cheezoholic]

6. Nepo Shah can go screw himself n/t

[Renew Deal]

16. I can't understand why anyone would think that's a good idea

[SamuelTheThird]

9. He's never stepped foot in Iran, or ran anything at all

[czarjak]

21. His grandpa and poppa are why we ended up with regime change.

[leftstreet]

5. Maduro's available

[ForeGoneLegsBirne]

23. Maybe They'd Take Trump/Vance? Lotta Gold Over There...

[woodsprite]

24. And apparently a huge load of antimony.

https://insidetelecom.com/iran-discovers-most-rare-minerals-in-the-world/

[tanyev]

7. "Ma'am, I don't know what you're complaining about. We got rid of the patch of kudzu in your yard."

"And no, we won't pay you for also burning down your house."

[SSJVegeta]

8. Leaning towards thinking it will be prezeshkian

[Ocelot II]

10. It's going brilliantly! Trump thought of everything!

[Prairie Gates]

11. Don't believe a word Trump says, including that

[Historic NY]

12. *WildCard

[RockRaven]

13. *that The Dotard knew/was briefed about

We're talking about a guy who doesn't read, gets picture book briefings which must include mentions of himself to keep him awake.

How deep in the depth chart do you really think his briefings/knowledge went?

[stopdiggin]

15. do you place any stock in this 'report' at all .. ?

From the perspective of Trump having any true knowledge - or moreover, the slightest inkling toward veracity, even if he did so .. ?

Because my immediate take away is to call for a whole truck load of salt ...

[moniss]

20. I don't believe this for one minute because they

trotted out the son of the last Shah many weeks ago and he was claiming he's "ready to lead" etc. They were never going to go for anything other than a puppet.

[Layzeebeaver]

22. Even if it is true...

It doesn’t matter, there is always a line of succession in Iran. The government is both highly distributed and also deep.

If they killed all the .”candidates”, it just means they they don’t know who is boing to take over. And therefore there is no idea what this person will be like.

Only added another dimension of unknowns.

Great work guys… (not!)

[Johnny2X2X]

25. They had no plan

They were emboldened by kidnapping Maduro and thought these strikes would topple Iran's leaders so they could install someone who would hand over Iran's natural resources to their friends. They figured the people they saw protesting would do the heavy lifting.

One of the main miscalculations was that Iran doesn't have a viable opposition group that is armed and can make a real dent against the government. The best we could have hoped for is someone from the Supreme Leaders inner circle would take over and come back to the negotiating table.

Now it's chaos and no one knows what comes next.

[OC375]

26. That was the plan

Kill the government, let someone else sort it out. Complain about not being thanked. Full stop. I don’t believe there is anything else to the plan.

[GreatGazoo]

27. The "plan" was just to bomb Iran into the Stone age

and then divide the country so that it cannot re-emerge as the biggest regional power.

Gonna bomb until they run out of bombs.