In an are of uncertainty of it's very survival, the Iran regime used a cardboard figure of it's new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei instead of the "real thing", raising ever more questions.
After Joseph Stalin delivered a speech at a Communist Party conference, the hall erupted in applause. Party officials jumped to their feet and began clapping enthusiastically. But after a few minutes an awkward problem emerged: who would dare stop first? No one wanted to be the first to sit down and risk appearing disloyal. And so the applause continued—for eleven full minutes.
Dictatorships, in their rituals of loyalty, have a habit of slipping into the comically absurd.
Iran had its own comedic moment this week when a life-size cutout of Mojtaba Khamenei, held together with tape, was carried onstage to roaring crowds at the Tehran allegiance rally in Revolution Square. State media broadcast regime loyalists hailing and swearing allegiance to a cardboard Khamenei.
