Iran’s supreme leader is fading into the shadows

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/07/30/irans-supreme-leader-is-fading-into-the-shadows?utm_content=ed-picks-image-link-4&etear=nl_weekly_4&utm_campaign=a.the-economist-this-week&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=7/31/2025&utm_id=2098015

Posted by bethany_mcguire

8 comments

  1. SS: Who holds power in Iran these days? This dispatch from the Economist highlights how, following the 12-day war with Israel, there is an increasingly large power vacuum emerging within the country.

  2. Iran’s supreme leader is about to get dog walked into hell

  3. He’s an unelected theocrat and he’s nearly 90, I would be shocked if he WAS actually getting anything done.

  4. I didn’t expect much but their response to getting obliterated by Israel was pathetically impotent, even for them.

  5. I mean his credibility anymore is practically nonexistent

  6. Time for the yearly Neoliberal article that Russia/China/Iran is going to collapse in literally one nanosecond

  7. I had a hunch he crossed IAEA threshold because he is dying and wanted his thousand virgins. It is important he,not Trump or Bibi,started recent conflict

  8. After Israel’s penchant for high profile political decapitation targeting leadership figures… yeah its not strange.

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