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Mullah's Meltdown: Top Iranian Cleric Breaks Down Over Khamenei's DeathTwo weeks after a precise U.S.-Israeli airstrike ended Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's 37-year rule on February 28, 2026, the regime's loyalists remain shattered. In a raw, unedited video from a Mashhad mosque, Imam Ahmad Alamolhoda—Friday prayer leader and de facto hardline ruler of Iran's second-largest city—sobs uncontrollably while declaring, "We have no master, our master is gone."Alamolhoda, notorious for enforcing some of the strictest sharia interpretations in the country, embodies the clerical elite's cult-like devotion to the late supreme leader. His public collapse highlights deep cracks in the regime's facade at a moment of vulnerability, with no stable successor yet consolidated amid ongoing conflict.While regime supporters grieve, many ordinary Iranians mark the event very differently. The stark contrast underscores the widening divide between the ruling theocracy and the people it claims to represent.