Cindy's OPINION: Is Khamein dead? I don't know, but apparently (according to news reports) his health is so bad, he soon will be -- if he is not already.
ON THE NET...
http://www.khamenei.ir/
http://www.leader.ir/
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http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=khamenei&ie=UTF-8&spell=1&oi=spell&scoring=d
http://news.google.com/nwshp?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wn&q=%22Khamenei%22&scoring=d
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http://rapidrecon.threatswatch.org/2007/01/ayatollah-khameini-is-dead/
Article snippet: "Michael Ledeen is reporting that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khameini, is dead."
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Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_19925.shtml
ran News Jan 2nd, 2007 - 17:56:15
Page One > Iran News
Iran's Supreme Mullah Leader Will Be Dead Soon
Jan 2, 2007
Iran's Supreme Mullah Leader, Ali Khamenei is seriously ill and will have to be replaced in the coming months as he is no longer capable of holding office, according to Assembly of Experts member mullah Nasseri. The powerful mullah body appoints and oversees the country's supreme leader. "Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei is gravely ill - he can no longer see very well, has difficulty hearing, and is no longer able to properly perform his duties," Nasseri told a women's group.
Iranians have speculated for sometime about Khamenei's health. But talk of the 67 year-old Khamenei's health is taboo and officials have denied he is seriously ill, although United States sources had previously said Khamenei had cancer. He is widely regarded as the figurehead of mullahs' regime. The survivor of an assassination attempt, his supporters call him a "living martyr", and Iranians call him "cholaaq ali gedaa".
The country's supreme leader since 1989, Khamenei succeeded the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, infamous mullah Khomeini, as president in 1981 and served two terms. His death or removal from office by the Assembly of Experts will trigger a power struggle within mullahs' regime, according to observers.
The names of three possible successors to Khamenei are currently on the lips of Iranians: Khamenei's son, Mojtaba; Iran's former reformist president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani; and Gholam Ali Mesbah Yazdi, the ultra-conservative ayatollah who is considered the spiritual father of Iran's current hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. All mullahs.
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http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061224/capt.xhs10512241409.iran_nuclear_khamenei_xhs105.jpg?x=380&y=253&sig=qBpf1pkgv9KGzm3Y6KlXXw--
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/061224/481/xhs10512241409
PHOTO CAPTION - QUOTE:
Escorted by his bodyguards Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a ceremony in Tehran, Iran on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday downplayed U.N. Security Council sanctions on his country over its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, saying world powers will soon regret imposing them. (AP Photo/Bagher Nasir)
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http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000632.html
December 07, 2006
Iran Supreme Leader Hospitalized. Condition Grave.
pajamasmedia.com:
Three days ago, Iran’s dictator, Supreme Leader Ayatollah ali Khamenei, was rushed to the vast medical facility traditionally known as “Vanak” hospital (it now has an Arabic name that means “the 12th Imam Hospital”), a 1,200-room facility that saves half of its beds for the leadership.
Khamenei is known to be suffering from cancer, and taking considerable quantities of an opium-based pain killer. He has lost more than 17 pounds in the past ten months, and was told last spring that he was unlikely to see another New Year (In the Iranian calendar, the New Year begins at the end of March).
Posted on 07 December 2006 @ 16:10 GMT
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9063822194153221252&q=KHAMENEI
(Added to Google December 23, 2006)
UPDATING Post no. 134
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761584/posts?page=134#134
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014701.php
January 05, 2007
Iran: Reports supreme leader dead false
Iran's Supreme Thug is not dead yet. From UPI, with thanks to Adam:
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Iran's ambassador to the United Nations says there is no truth to reports his nation's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei, has died.
Reports had surfaced on the internet Friday the 67 year-old Khamenei died. There were reports last month he was seriously ill.
But, Javad Zarif, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, told United Press International, "There is no truth to that" when asked about the reports.
Khamenei has been Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1989.
Posted by Robert at January 5, 2007 02:05 PM
