Posted on 03/07/2015 10:39:18 PM PST by Dave346
Washington, D.C. - Social media is ablaze with rumors that Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died. Iranian state-media has yet to confirm or deny such rumors.
Cairo-based journalist Gamal Sultan wrote on social media that Khamenei died after suffering from a bout with prostate cancer, after surgery failed to alter the course of his demise, according to Rassd News Network.
Daniel J. Levy of The Times Of Israel wrote on Twitter late Saturday: “Hearing unconfirmed reports from a usually very reliable source of Ayatollah Khamenei’s death today.”
On Friday, Iranian media confirmed that “The commander of the Islamic Revolution, Ali Khamenei, his health deteriorated on Friday morning, and was admitted to a Tehran hospital,” reported Al Bawaba News.
Reports on Thursday revealed that the “Supreme Leader” may have been hospitalized and was said to be in critical condition, according to Israel Hayom. Khamenei, 75, was reportedly rushed to the hospital due to complications from his ongoing bout with cancer.
Since 1989, Khamenei has ruled over the ancient Persian country with an iron fist, succeeding his predecessor, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in instituting Islamic law over Iran.
In 1983 and 1984, while he was President of Iran under Khomeini, Khamenei oversaw the Iran-backed killings of hundreds of American servicemen in Lebanon.
Iran continued to target American soldiers during the United States’ most recent war in Iraq. American officials believe that Iran was primarily responsible for supplying IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) to jihadist groups during the war. The explosive devices, many of which were utilized as booby traps and roadside bombs, killed many American soldiers.
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Will his successor be called Khimenei Khemenei or Khumenei since the other two vowels have already been taken?
i am pretty sure Biden will speak of early days when the Dictator went on Iranian Televison in 1928, before all Hell broke loose in Iran/Iraq.
Well he should. It was an impressive event and Joe remembers it like it was yesterday.
I bet Obola will go to the state funeral.
Hell has a new guest.
” May Khamenei roast in hell!”
He has a box seat, front row center.
He wouldn’t consent to anything else. Now he gets to be mad at God forever.
He saved the adjoining seat for Obama.
That would require friendship. In hell? I laff.
“...he was sick and old, and old sick men die....”
Sometimes not nearly fast enough.
true dat.
His successor will be 666.
My memory has TV coming into being in the late 1940s.
Pigs Be Upon Him.
What the? Is that for real? What is it with that sleeze sticking his groin in womens butts? And I would bet this woman is married as well, that’s probably her husband right there.
Iran had television in 1928?
Let’s send flowers, Harf and Psaki to the funeral. Two carbon footprint aholes gone up in smoke. Hope they water the flowers.
I want to see that pic of Joe Biden shaking hands with Lincoln in 1865.
He can remember it like yesterday.
He was a wee lad, just out of High School where he lead his Rounders team in the state championship. He was fresh out of training and he had joined the Delaware 1st Grenadiers. It was a slave state a border state, but he loved America and he Loved old Abe.
He was stationed in the Capital City, they called DC that in those days, and he had the rare occasion to carry correspondence for General Winfield Scott Hancock, old Hancock the Superb himself, when he happened upon Mr.Lincoln on the steps of the U.S Capital Building.
He noticed that President Lincoln had dropped a piece of paper on his way into the building. Being a good Pro-Union Soldier he retrieved the paper and made his way into the Captital and returned the document to the President.
It was actually the only copy of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution that Lincoln had.
Joe actually was responsible, in at least a small way, in freeing the slaves.
Ah, yes. The good old days when Joe was young.
Iran had television in 1928?”
I fail to see what relevance that has.
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