Do They Ever Give Up? Iran’s Mullahs Double Down on Dynastic Tyranny
By Hotspotnews
In a move that should shock no one who has been paying attention to the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran’s Assembly of Experts has reportedly chosen Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, as his successor. According to Iranian opposition sources, the decision came under heavy pressure from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)—the regime’s elite thugs who answer only to the mullahs and their apocalyptic ideology.
The Visegrád 24 account broke the news Tuesday, and the message is crystal clear: the Iranian regime is not interested in reform, moderation, or joining the civilized world. They are building a hereditary dictatorship wrapped in religious fanaticism, passing the torch of terror from father to son just like the medieval monarchs they claim to despise.
Do they ever give up?
For over four decades, the Islamic Republic has survived on a toxic brew of oil money, hostage-taking, proxy wars, and nuclear blackmail. They’ve funded Hezbollah in Lebanon, armed Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, propped up Assad in Syria, and seeded chaos across Iraq, Yemen, and beyond. They’ve murdered their own people in the streets for daring to demand basic freedoms—remember the women who burned their hijabs after Mahsa Amini’s death? The regime’s answer wasn’t dialogue. It was bullets, hangings, and more oppression.
Now, with Khamenei in his mid-80s and the regime facing economic collapse, international isolation, and repeated military humiliations from Israel, what do they do? They don’t liberalize. They don’t negotiate in good faith. They install the son—widely seen as a hardline enforcer even more ruthless than his father—to guarantee the revolution devours the next generation too.
This isn’t leadership. This is mafia succession with a Qur’an in one hand and a ballistic missile in the other.
Conservatives have long understood what the foreign policy “experts” in Washington refuse to admit: the Iranian regime is not a misunderstood partner waiting for the right diplomatic overture. It is a revolutionary death cult that views compromise as weakness and the destruction of Israel and the West as a religious duty. Every time the Obama-Biden crowd eased sanctions or pretended a nuclear deal would tame the beast, Tehran pocketed the cash, accelerated its enrichment program, and kept the centrifuges spinning. The result? A regime that now threatens the region with nuclear breakout capability while its IRGC commanders openly call for global jihad.
The selection of Mojtaba Khamenei is the regime’s middle finger to the Iranian people, to Israel, and to every freedom-loving nation on Earth. It signals that the theocrats have no intention of fading away. They will cling to power by any means necessary—rigged assemblies, IRGC bayonets, and the export of terror—until someone stops them.
The United States and its allies cannot afford another decade of wishful thinking. We’ve tried engagement. We’ve tried “strategic patience.” We’ve watched as American sailors were humiliated, our bases attacked by Iran-backed militias, and our friends in Israel forced to fight endless defensive wars. Enough.
A conservative approach is simple and realistic: maximum pressure. Restore crippling sanctions. Designate the IRGC in full as a terrorist organization with zero carve-outs. Provide real moral and material support to the Iranian people who risk everything to chant “Death to the Dictator.” And yes—keep Israel’s back. The Jewish state has shown repeatedly that it will act when the world dithers, and America’s proper role is to stand unequivocally with the only democracy in the Middle East against the mullahs’ medieval empire.
The Iranian regime will never give up voluntarily. History proves it. They view every concession as a stepping stone to victory. The only language they understand is strength—economic, military, and moral.
The question isn’t whether “they” will ever give up. The question is whether the free world still has the will to make them.
Because if we don’t, Mojtaba Khamenei’s Iran will be even more dangerous than his father’s—and the blood of the next generation of victims will be on all of us.