Allahpundit: Iran’s supreme leader dead…Maybe
ALLAHPUNDIT linked to Pajama’s Media on the story of Iran’s top spiritual and political figure, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. ALLAHPUNDIT says he found it to be “dubious to me when I first read it two days ago now seems : less so.”:
Iran’s top spiritual and political figure, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed 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 Ayatollah Nasseri. The powerful clerical 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.
ALLAHPUNDIT adds:
Here he is voting on December 15th and out and about on Christmas eve. He doesn’t look stricken, but maybe he was going for a Willis Reed “playing in pain” thing. If he is dead, it’s probably the best time for him to go: Ahmadinejad’s influence in Iran is at ebb tide so the risk of his very own hand-picked Greg Stillson being chosen to replace Khamenei is as minimal as it’s going to get.
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