Posted on 06/26/2025 12:52:18 AM PDT by Cronos
With the nation watching, the host on Iranian state television asked the question that so many people in Iran — from the political elite to people on the street — were wondering.
“People are very worried about the supreme leader,” the host said to an official from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s office on Tuesday. “Can you tell us how he is?”
He noted that viewers had sent a flood of messages asking the same thing. But the official, Mehdi Fazaeli, the head of Mr. Khamenei’s archives office, did not give a straight answer.
Instead, Mr. Fazaeli said that he, too, had received numerous inquiries from officials and others worried about the ayatollah after the furious bombing campaign by Israel and the United States.
“We should all be praying,” Mr. Fazaeli said.
“The people who are responsible for protecting the supreme leader are doing their job well,” he added. “God willing, our people can celebrate victory next to their leader, God willing."
,..Sanam Vakil, the director for the Middle East and North Africa at Chatham House, a research group, said that Mr. Khamenei’s absence was notable and a sign that Iran’s leaders were being “extremely careful and security-minded.”
“If we don’t see Khamenei by Ashura,” an important religious procession for Shiite Muslims observed in Iran in early July this year, Ms. Vakil said, “that is a bad sign. He has to show his face.”
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They could have had him any day
They only let him slip away
Out of kindness, I suppose
Trump did say they knew where he was. My guess is one of the Iraeli strikes the night the B-2s were there took care of him.
The others don’t want to admit it because they know there’ll be utter chaos.
Yeah, I’m praying also, that he ate a date from Indiana Jones first movie.
oh oops
Ayatollah No-Show
I don’t think Willie and Merle were singing about this asshole. Just a guess. 🙂
Maybe he is vacationing in Cuba- that’s the safest place for a dictator to be.
Maybe he was 300 feet down at Fordow which he probably thought was the safest place to be during an Israeli strike.
I never tire hearing that song...
Emmylou Harris - Pancho and Lefty (live 1977)
w/Rodney Crowell and Albert Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MtvnZ2LvsM
Hopefully, he’s playing cards with the Devil, I mad Mugniyeh, and Soleimani.
As long as it's with his face pointing up from inside a box, I'm good...
Where’s Waldo?
I always heard the version done by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
https://youtu.be/UoKvUYbGu7A?si=qv6KjS6PLdxUfz6Z
More than likely ensconced in a luxury villa in the suburbs of Paris, on his banking app and chuckling at his $100 billion dollar balance, while waiting for his daily boy sex slave to be delivered.
I love that movie.. can’t count how many times I have watched it, lol.
Khameni met his match you know
Down 300ft below
Nobody heard his dyin’ words...
Ah but that’s the way it goes
All the IAF Pilots say
They could’ve waxed him any day
They only let him slip away
Out of kindness, I suppose
Now Bibi doesn’t sing the blues
All night long like he used to
The ash Khameni turned into
Is in a jar by his chimney flue
The day Khameni became a ghost
Bibi left for the Amalfi Coast
Where he got the bread to go
The State Department only knows
All the IAF Pilots say
They could’ve waxed him any day
They only let him slip away
Out of kindness, I suppose.
Jihadis tell how Khameni fell
While Bibi has his own tale to tell
Isfahan’s dark and Fordow’s cold
And so the story ends, we’re told
Khameni’s past the help of prayers it’s true
So send ‘em all to Bibi’s crew
They finally did what they had to do
And world opinion’s turning cold...
A few great IAF Pilots say
They could’ve waxed him any day
They only let him go so long
Out of kindness, I suppose...
Rosanne Cash sings “Pancho and Lefty” live for Willie Nelson tribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKlmDL2gFpo (1080HD)
In other news, didn’t Chevy assure us you were dead?
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