Posted on 12/06/2020 7:49:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Unconfirmed reports from Iran say the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, returned his soul to his maker. According to the same reports, an official announcement will be made only after the transfer of powers to his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, are completed.
Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei, 81, was the supreme leader of Iran since 1989. He previously served as the president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei is the longest serving head of state in the Middle East, as well as the second-longest serving Iranian leader of the last century, after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Reports on Saturday suggested that doctors from the Masih Daneshvari Hospital in Tehran were rushed to the supreme leader’s home, and that some of his powers were being transferred to his son.
Mojtaba Khamenei played a leading role in orchestrating Ahmadinejad’s electoral victory, and that he was a key figure in orchestrating the crackdown against anti-government protesters in June 2009. He is reputed to be in charge of the paramilitary, clandestine Basij. In 2009, Mehdi Karroubi, former chairman of the Iranian parliament and a reformist candidate in the 2009 presidential vote, explicitly accused Mojtaba Khamenei of participating in a conspiracy to rig the election.
The ultra-conservative clerics have helped maintain the iron grip the Ayatollah has held in the nation since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, but moderates and mainstream factions have been pushing for a more democratic form of government with power transferred to the president and the Islamic Consultative Assembly, their version of a parliament. If the Ayatollah is dead or nearing death, it would behoove the current theocratic leaders to avoid a vacuum in power by installing Motjaba Khamenei immediately.
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Very bad timing for the mullahs, coming right after Mossad’s brilliant assasination of their top nuke scientist.
He was snuck out of the country and got asylum somewhere.
he’s dead, Jim.
Well, do we send flowers or not?
“ Well, do we send flowers or not?”
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Do Daisy Cutters count as flowers?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
He’ll be very disconcerted to find himself standing before Jesus.
Something brisant might be nice...and get their complete attention!
We should. That will prevent any attempt by the Ayatollahs to deflect attention by blaming the great satan.
Soon the Ayatollahs will fall
When he takes power he may try to strike US targets to show that he us finally in charge.
Thanks, but I’m basing my statement on the people’s reaction to the Ayatollahs. IRan is increasingly atheist and even 8% have become Zoroastrian. The government is desperately signing a deal with China as they know their time is up.
The US not interfering is perfect - the government cannot blame the USA for the ills facing the IRanian people
He was reportedly fighting cancer for a few years.
More smoking shoes
The ultra-conservative clerics....
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Another jab at freedom loving conservatives. One could say Hitler was a ultra conservative Nazi and Stalin was an ultra conservative Communist and so on...
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