🚨🇮🇶 | Islamic Resistance in Iraq:

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq today, at dawn today on Sunday 29-09-2024, attacked two separate targets in our occupied lands, with a squadron of drones.

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🇱🇧 | Hezbollah attack Haifa

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🇵🇸 | The Zionist regime continues to conduct airstrikes on Gaza, Palestine.

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🇮🇶🇱🇧🥀 The moment the news of the martyrdom of Sayyid Hassan was announced from the shrine of Imam Ali (AS)

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🇱🇧 | Zionist airstrikes on Beirut

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— 🇮🇷 To those who are confused, asking if Iran's Supreme Leader has full authority:

Yes, the Supreme Leader in Iran TECHNICALLY has full authority, especially regarding foreign policy and national security matters. He is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, and the highest political and religious authority in the country. He is the Wali al-Faqih (Guardian Jurist), somewhat like the Pope for Catholics back in the day, having both spiritual and political power.

However, Ayatollah Khamenei, the current Supreme Leader for the past 35 years, rarely ever uses his executive power. If he wants to, he can issue a 'Hokm-e Hokoomati' (Executive Order) which must be obeyed and carried out by the government, but this rarely happens.

In reality, the Supreme Leader mostly acts as a 'guide'. He publicly gives his opinion about something, and the current administration is expected to act roughly in line with the Supreme Leader's vision, even if they are not an explicit unequivocal order.

For example, in the case of Ismael Haniyeh's assassination, the Supreme Leader, both privately and publicly, claimed that Iran must carry out a 'blood vengeance' and retaliate for this crime. As mentioned before, this statement mostly acts as a guideline, not a direct order. Khamenei does this because if he signs too many executive orders, he will be seen as a dictator, especially by the more liberal factions of Iranian society. He also believes that the President, due to his democratic election, has a mandate of the people.

In the case of Haniyeh's assassination, the new Pezeshkian administration, despite being clearly instructed to retaliate, decided to make a compromise with the US instead, and to retaliate at a later time. Obviously, this did not turn out well, and now many Iranians are pissed off that the Supreme Leader's instructions were bypassed.

For the record, the Supreme Leader could have easily chosen to simply directly order the strike on Israel, nobody could have disobeyed it, but it would have been perceived as undermining the new administration, which was clearly opposed to a strike in the immediate timeframe.

Ayatollah Khamenei has always taken the position of being a 'concerned father'; he gives the government and the President a lot of freedom to do whatever they want, even if it goes against his guidelines, because he hopes they will realize that relying on the West simply does not work. Clearly, even after the past 45 years, the Reformists have not yet come to this realization, unlike the principlists such as Raeesi and Jalili.

It is possible that after this incident, the Supreme Leader will still decide to directly order a strike against Israel after all, regardless of Pezeshkian's wishes. He was simply trying to keep the national unity.

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