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Ayatollah’s health fails as Iran power struggle grows
PJM ^ | 7 December 2006 | Michael Ledeen

Posted on 12/07/2006 4:21:19 PM PST by shrinkermd

Three days ago, Iran’s dictator, Supreme Leader Ayatollah ali Khamenei, was rushed to the vast medical facility traditionally known as “Vanak” hospital (it now has an Arabic name that means “the 12th Imam Hospital”), a 1,200-room facility that saves half of its beds for the leadership.

Khamenei is known to be suffering from cancer, and taking considerable quantities of an opium-based pain killer. He has lost more than 17 pounds in the past ten months, and was told last spring that he was unlikely to see another New Year (In the Iranian calendar, the New Year begins at the end of March).

Khamenei first complained of chills, and then broke out in a cold sweat. He lay down to rest, and began to lose feeling in his feet, at which point his aides got him to the hospital.

Amidst maximum security, and under orders that the event be kept secret at all costs, the theocrat was placed in one of the luxurious suites reserved for the country’s most important figures. Khamenei’s blood pressure and pulse were alarmingly low, and his physicians at


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: ayatollahkhamenei; cancer; iran
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? If true this should be on the wire someplace
1 posted on 12/07/2006 4:21:21 PM PST by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd

No matter whose derriere is filling the chair, the chair is always filled by a derriere, for such is the Way of chairs [it is the Way of derrieres, too, but with a proviso that not every derriere gets to fill a chair, and many derrieres are left standing and waiting]. Thus, even if true, the significance is negligible.


2 posted on 12/07/2006 4:27:01 PM PST by GSlob
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To: shrinkermd
He lay down to rest, and began to lose feeling in his feet, at which point his aides got him to the hospital.
You probably shouldn't wash down your viagra with a white russian.
3 posted on 12/07/2006 4:27:31 PM PST by Asclepius (protectionists would outsource our dignity and prosperity in return for illusory job security)
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To: shrinkermd
Castro, Khamenei. These things happen in threes

Who's number three?

Chavez? One can only hope

4 posted on 12/07/2006 4:28:23 PM PST by Popman ("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
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To: shrinkermd

I wonder if he's radioactive?


5 posted on 12/07/2006 4:29:49 PM PST by TexanToTheCore (DE)
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To: Popman

Mugabe? I gotta go set up an office pool...


6 posted on 12/07/2006 4:31:15 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: shrinkermd
Here's a similar article with a little bit of source info.
The link goes to a sign in page so here's a paste from it.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was taken to the 12th Imam Hospital in Iran after falling ill sometime between Dec. 3-4, American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Michael Ledeen reported late Dec. 6, citing knowledgeable Iranian clerics and sources. Khamenei was taken to the hospital after developing chills and a cold sweat and then losing feeling in his feet, Ledeen reported. Khamenei is still undergoing tests, but his doctors believe he had some sort of cardiac crisis, the report concluded...

http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=281630
7 posted on 12/07/2006 4:31:54 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: Billthedrill
Mugabe? Good choice

All things considered, I hope this vile thug goes first

8 posted on 12/07/2006 4:33:53 PM PST by Popman ("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
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To: Popman

Jimmy Carter could be number three,that would actually make a lot of people quite happy.


9 posted on 12/07/2006 4:34:00 PM PST by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: Popman
Castro, Khamenei. These things happen in threes

Who's number three?

Chavez? One can only hope

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I understand Kim Jong-Il's health is in question!

10 posted on 12/07/2006 4:40:26 PM PST by night reader (NRA Life Member since 1962)
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To: shrinkermd

Lord please spare him from death tonight...so he can die an excruciatingly long and painful death in the coming days.


11 posted on 12/07/2006 4:42:36 PM PST by montag813
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To: Farmer Dean
Jimmy Carter

Nay, he's way too useful as an example of a left wing moon bat gone over the edge.

Plus we would have to put up with the MSM falling all over themselves with endless inane tributes on his greatness (puke)

12 posted on 12/07/2006 4:46:15 PM PST by Popman ("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
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To: Farmer Dean
Jimmy Carter could be number three,that would actually make a lot of people quite happy.

Me for one! And it would be poetic justice at that. I despised Clinton -- still do -- but Carter? The more I learn about him, the more I realize how utterly treasonous, treacherous and despicable he is. How he managed to hornswoggle so many people into believing he was genuine for so long... I will never understand.

13 posted on 12/07/2006 4:57:41 PM PST by Ronin (Ut iusta esse, lex noblis severus necesse est.)
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To: Popman

"Castro, Khamenei. These things happen in threes
Who's number three?

Chavez? One can only hope"

Hmmm...
Is Kim Jong Ill?


14 posted on 12/07/2006 5:41:46 PM PST by Humble Servant (Keep it simple - do what's right.)
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To: shrinkermd

Good. No better time for it.


15 posted on 12/07/2006 7:09:00 PM PST by dr_who_2
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To: shrinkermd

Khamenei's death would take Ahmadinejad down a notch.


16 posted on 12/07/2006 7:15:06 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: shrinkermd

I hope he burns in hell along with other dictators


17 posted on 12/07/2006 8:09:18 PM PST by Biscuit85 (I hate CNN!)
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To: Ronin

After the Media had led the way in brainwashing the entire country into believing that Nixon and Watergate was the most serious stain on our political life since the dreaded Joe McCarthy, it then led the way in promoting the smiling and freckled Carter as a breath of fresh air wafting through our grateful lives. What a snow job!


18 posted on 12/07/2006 9:00:02 PM PST by supremedoctrine ("Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can see"--Schopenhauer)
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promoting the smiling and freckled Carter as a breath of fresh air wafting through our grateful lives

Best description of Carter I ever read was P.J. O'Rourke's: "a grin like a raccoon eating fish guts out of a wire brush." Pretty much sums up Carter's whole worthless miserable existence.

19 posted on 12/07/2006 10:34:26 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

At his best, P.J. had no peers. But he has mellowed lately, and has been surpassed by the indispensable Mark Steyn. I am currently reading AMERICA ALONE, and I would advise everyone to---it might equip up for the kinds of action that might become necessary sooner than we think.


20 posted on 12/07/2006 11:44:16 PM PST by supremedoctrine ("Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can see"--Schopenhauer)
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