Khamenei: A Counterfeit Leader
Huffington Post / Mahmoud Delkhasteh
07-Mar-2011 (3 comments)

e all know that the present Iranian regime systematically uses political expediency to pursue its monopolization of power. But how much is known of the reformists' own political expediency, and at what cost are they hidden from public view? At great cost, if we consider the current struggles of the Green Movement to disentangle itself from the all-powerful authority of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. What if it were more widely known, for example, that he had in effect become leader not through legitimate means but by a forged letter, written supposedly by the previous leader, Khomeini, just before his death? According to the Iranian constitution, the country's supreme leader had to be a grand ayatollah, marja. Khamenei was not even an ayatollah. Before the revolution, he made a living through preaching (rozeh khaani), which even the least educated clergy may do.

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Maryam Hojjat

Parviz, well said

by Maryam Hojjat on

Down with IRR/IRI & its supporters.


PArviz

So what?

by PArviz on

Does it really matter by which means he became "vali Vaghih"?

Khomeini was a grand ayatollah, did that make him less blood thirsty or backward? No, on the contrary, he was a savage who caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and almost destroyed the country in the process.

His successor had to have the same qualities in order for the Islamic Republic to survive (by torturing, maiming, raping and killing people). Any of the then leaders had the potential to become the "vali Vaghih" and carry on from there. The end result would have been the same.

This whole regime and system is based on deception and forgery so this claim of a forged letter would not surprise anybody and in fact is in line with the nature of these beasts.

Do we really have to prove this whole thing is based on a big lie? Anybody would tell you that the whole system belongs to the middle ages (or perhaps even the stone age).

Down with the ENTIRE Islamic Republic!


yolanda

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by yolanda on

Very interesting article!