Good lord, is he still alive? Hahhahha - ROTFL about peasant slaves. That's what Lurch thinks we all are.
I believe that Khomeinei died and didn't leave a clear successor, but his hand picked mullahs took over from him and now run the place in his image.
I never did fully hear what was going on in there.
But with the student coup last year that they put down, the hold of the Mullahs has got to be slipping.