” One person with whom there is no ambiguity in terms of whether Iran wants a nuclear weapon is the Ayatollah Khomeini and President Rouhani”
As you well know, I love Cruz, but I seriously think that the Ayatollah Khomeini has recently said that, considering that he’s been hanging out with his 72 virgins for 26 years now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini
(lol...I suspect that the idiot journalist did a wiki search and this was the first name that came up)
You need to do a little research on the subject of the Ayatollah.
The current one is the second. He followed the one who died in 1989.
The reporter most likely misspelled it. He probably said Ayatollah Khamenei [not the old Carter-era Khomeini- different guy] but the pronounciation is about the same.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a conservative cleric whose authority supersedes that of the elected president Rouhani, has yet to deliver a final verdict on the deal. Conservative members of parliament and
Reuters · ByPatricia Zengerle · 9 minutes ago