Remember when they referred to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar”? Glowing obituary. Well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. First, though, this is what you are seeing from Iranians
And now
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is dead at 86
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Shiite Muslim cleric who played a behind-the-scenes role in Iran’s Islamic revolution, served two terms as president in the 1980s and dominated the country for more than three decades as supreme leader, was killed Saturday as Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on Iran. He was 86.
President Donald Trump announced the death in a Truth Social post, calling the ayatollah “one of the most evil people in History.” He did not share additional details, but four Israeli security officials said Ayatollah Khamenei was killed in an Israeli airstrike at his compound in Tehran.
Trump didn’t share more details on the boom boom killing, or, on how evil he is? Never really sure with the far-left Washington Post.
An early follower of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the austere cleric who inspired the revolution against Iran’s U.S.-backed monarchy, Ayatollah Khamenei staunchly opposed the United States and Israel, rejected Western “liberalism,” and adhered strictly to fundamentalist social policies.
As supreme leader of Iran since 1989 — when he succeeded Khomeini — Ayatollah Khamenei wielded ultimate political and religious authority in the Islamic republic, outranking the elected president and overseeing the country’s armed forces, internal security apparatus, judiciary, state media and foreign policy.
Nothing so far about him lording over a brutal, murderous regime, one which supported terrorism throughout the Middle East, trying to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews via proxies, killing Americans in Iraq, killing other Muslims/Arabs in the ME, having women stoned, gays hung, and so much more.
He had the final say on a landmark July 2015 nuclear accord with six world powers, including the United States, that restricted Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the easing of crippling economic sanctions. Although deeply distrustful of U.S. motives, and despite the misgivings of fellow hard-liners, he ultimately endorsed the deal, and it was formally implemented in January 2016.
Hilarious. Makes the US out to be the bad guy, even though it was the Obama admin in charge. And then goes on to bad mouth Trump for pulling the US out of the agreement.
When Iran was convulsed by widespread protests after the September 2022 death in custody of a young woman who was arrested by Islamic “morality police” for a dress-code violation, the supreme leader publicly blamed the United States and Israel and backed a deadly crackdown. How, he wondered, could some people “not see the foreign hand” behind the “rioting.”
Fucking seriously? This is what the WP writes? Nothing about this being due to Khamenei’s hardcore Islamist polices?
With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular (WT: they mean like a nice uncle) figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables.” But like the uncompromising Khomeini, he opposed moderates’ efforts to promote political and social reforms domestically and to secure rapprochement with the United States.
This is purely unhinged.
In the third decade of his rule, Iran became increasingly repressive, especially after security forces crushed demonstrations against the disputed 2009 reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Beyond this bit of crushing, it takes a long time to the obituary gets into him being a big meany towards Israel and the US, but, not in depth. They seriously whitewash his life. This is an insane piece.
But, then, most Democrats who read it are going to take the side of Khamenei and the Iranian regime over the US and the Iranian people yearning to be free, because that’s how Trump Deranged they are.
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As the Trump administration has dramatically increased the number of people held in federal immigration detention facilities, detainees’ access to medical care, sufficient food, basic hygiene and legal counsel have all come under scrutiny.
Efforts in Congress to block President Trump from using further military action against Iran without support from lawmakers have intensified after the U.S. and Israel launched a massive military operation on Saturday.
