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Perhaps it will help put things in context by looking at the supreme leader’s recent movements. On October 5th he went from Tehran to Now Shar, where he visited a naval base and academy. Later that day he went to the city of Chaloos, preached a sermon, delivered a speech and returned to Now Shar. On the 6th he traveled by automobile to Ramsar, a very beautiful resort city, and which is graced by a palace of the late shah. Khamenei was supposed to spend three days there, but he wasn’t feeling well, and complained of difficulty in breathing. He was therefore flown from Ramsar airport to Tehran.
He was treated at home by various specialists for several days. He received oxygen to help him breathe. The collapse came on Monday the 12th, and he was taken to a special clinic–originally built for Imam Khomeini–in Tehran. Foreign specialists began to arrive on Wednesday the 14th, when he was examined by foreign doctors. They included two famous Russian professors who had been in Iran previously, by three men described as “orientals” (could be Chinese or North Koreans; I don’t know), and two other doctors who identified themselves as swiss. Throughout, the Iranian doctors kept saying “give him more oxygen.” Medicine was delivered from abroad, coming straight from the airport to the clinic.
I am told he was still in a coma late Friday afternoon, Tehran time. And he is still very sick.
He has had only one important visitor outside his immediate family and advisers: Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanese Hezbollah. Nasrallah flew in, I believe on Thursday night, went to the clinic, saw Khamenei for two-three minutes, and came out of the room “in tears.”
Damn, Photo analysis!!… Where’s my old loop…It is really like the old cold war and who is where and when during may Day parades!
Sounds like he is having a respitory problems… Get me up to speed… Is he a smoker? Or is that verboten. Sounds a lot like how my mom died… she had COPD….
Cheers
ER White
Seems a little overdue that I haven’t seen or heard this on the MSM. Laura Ingraham should be interested. Michael, I think you have great contacts, but the Obama administration probably knows this stuff, too. What’s your theory as to why they’re silent?
Tom K.
in Texas
Mr. ledeen,
Once again you continue to spread lies about Iran. I live in Iran and the Supreme Leader is not dead. The bazaar was NOT closed and you are a complete liar.
You claim to know the complete timeline of when the Supreme Leader got sick, was transported, and checked in the hospital. You even know that Nasrallah visited him and came out in tears!!! What’s next, you’ll tell us that the Supreme Leader had a chicken salad for lunch and then felt better??? hahahaha….
Being in Iran, and reading this nonsense is funny, I can’t believe people actually believe your words and statements….I guess they forget your famous “Khamenei is dead in 2007…..”…
With all those doctors, foreign and domestic, surrounding him, how does somebody like Khamenei know who to trust? They say that Stalin, at the end, was helped not to recover from his stroke/poisoning by the doctors in his service.
Seems to be a problem for bloodthirsty tyrants. Maybe they need health-care reform.
The news makes sense to me, He probably say his last words to Hassan Nasrallah about how to continue their way of terror!
I hope they fall all together. Please analyze the situation after announcement of Khamenei’s death. What will happen? What will be the reaction of the reformist party in Iran? What will iranian people do? What will be the reaction of the world leaders, specially Europeans , will they say condolences ? or they write his name as a cruel tyranny and dictator ?
Sic semper tyrannis: Khamenei (and his allies) are directly responsible for the murdering of thousands of dissidents and indirectly for the exposure of a lot of us Iranians inside, and in my own case outside, of the country to the situation that we all know about. Whereas many people inside Iran simply suffer from the outcome of the ever-aggravating attitude coming from the various military and para-military groups supported by Khamenei, the Iranian diaspora, the majority of which outright despises any element of the regime, is being unfairly associated with the system and harrassed due to the way Iranians are portrayed here. To cut this short, having a fatal ailment, regardless of the painfulness, is the lightest punishment someone like Khamenei could get for his deeds.
Khamenei….Khomeini…..tomAto……tomato……
Would his death signify anything at all? Surely his replacement will just be another Islamic fanatic from the ayatollah production line?
Will Obama be first in line to offer his condolences on the death of a great (ahem) spiritual (cough cough) leader?
“GIVE HIM SOME CHICKEN SOUP”
Some upset amongst the waiting celestial virgin population. Heaven only knows what the horrible old man’s tastes run to.
what difference does it make whether Khamenei’s dead or not?
they’re all gonna be dead soon enough if this last little example of ledeen’s “creative destruction” pans out.
here’s how it works: we kill a bunch of their generals, plant stories of iran vowing revenge, nuke ourselves in another false flag, blame iran, then nuke iran.
simple.
and it’s been five years since we, a per ledeen’s philosophy, have thrown some “crappy little country against a wall“, so we’re overdue for that, too.
after all, us white people, particularly us ashkenazi supermen, deserve that oil more than a bunch of wogs do…
and we have a right to it, too, seeing as how might makes right, and we’re the mightiest people in the world, and our might proves our racial superiority.
it’s all good.
short people, the map
short people, the song
if you dont belong to imeem and dont want to join, you can go in through a google search:
short people, the song
ooops.
short people, the song
Khamenei….Khomeini…..tomAto……tomato……
Would his death signify anything at all?
Actually, it would. Major changes in Iran will definitely ensue once Khamenei dies. It will be a much bigger deal than the presidential elections. The president in Iran doesn’t count for much, but the supreme leader does.
Khamenei is only the second supreme leader in the short history of the Islamic Republic. He was personally chosen by Khomeini himself, so few dare question his legitimacy while he’s alive.
Once he’s dead, though, I’d say all bets are off as to what happens in Iran next. No one alive today has the personal authority to appoint a successor who will be widely accepted the way Khamenei was when Khomeini appointed him. Iran is not N.Korea.
That being said, I don’t believe there’s anything wrong with Khamenei’s health at the moment, just Ledeen being Ledeen again. He pulled this same stunt back in 2007. Every day Khamenei failed to make a big public appearance, Ledeen cited this as new “evidence” he was sick. Then one day, Khamanei appears, and Ledeen changes the subject…
It’s worth keeping in mind that absence of a positve doesn’t prove a negative.
Naif Mabat
Khamenei dead or alive… whatever.
the problem is this: does obama have the horsepower and/or the inclination to rein the crazies like ledeen and mcchrystal in?
we know the neocons are perfectly capable of atrocities if they figure they can exploit them… and if their alliance with israel is for real, well, that’s another source of desperation.
how far has the rot progressed in the military? …that mcchrystal guy looks like a loose cannon, and he could be loopy enough to be persuaded he can save israeli america by staging a putsch… if he’s convinced everybody that he’s a committed zionist, he’d have the media and the congress behind him.
of course, if “iran” does its “retaliation” properly, the congress and the president wouldnt exist anymore.
the neocons are probably drooling over the prospect of a nuke attack on washington dc during the state of the union speech.
imagine the neocon celebrations if the president and congress were wiped out in one fell swoop and one of the neocons’ pet generals declared martial law and took over.
#19 wadosy
As a neocon speaking, we would be satisfied if you would cease posting from the heart. You’re scaring the pants off this old soul.
Fred J Harris
things are getting pretty desperate, america’s a gonner anyhow, about the only sure-fire thing left to do is loot —provided you’ve got the horsepower to do any meaningful looting.
but maybe that’s what all the bigtime looting is about: the big boys have made deals, trying to buy off the real lunatics, and everybody except the diehard zionists have decided to cut israel loose.
loot’s more important than israel if this peak oil business turns out to be the real thing: you can buy refuge anywhere, but israel was such a bad idea in the first place, it’s probably not worth trying to save in the long run.
Dear sir!
I evaluated Khamenei’s photo wihthin last 10 days. you can see the reasults here : http://gorizsabz.blogspot.com/2009/10/10.html
You can easily see that his mustache and bear grown too much in just 10 days! just look at the left photo and right photos! the average of hair growth for human is 0.3mm on 1 day, but his hair grown more than 3Cm in these pictures, I am sure the pictures of his meeting with Senegal’s president is fake and old! If any one need more information and translation of this post : http://gorizsabz.blogspot.com/2009/10/10.html
just contact me.
Regards
It seems the
Iranians may not trasnfer their enriched uranium out of the country after all.
Probably a bogus stort, wadosy, this is from the neocon Washington Post.
#8 Saed,
“fatal illness the lightest punishment”….
some would say that it depends on what happens to him afterward.
#21 Wadosy,
peak oil is total crap. We’ve been discovering some of the biggest reserves in HISTORY right here in the USA.. the only ‘peak’ I see is our own Democrat party refusal to permit drilling and production of that oil.. so, ‘peak production’, sure, but it is ENTIRELY PHONY…
if we started producing our own oil in the USA, you’d see $20 a barrel within a year.. and our reserves are good for fifty years or more..
but no. THank you, Democrat party.
Wadosy, I give you credit for trying to defend a double standard. But,
you will fail, because a double standard is exhibited by the Sons of Allah when they kill adherants of faith traditions other than Islam for
doing things that bring honour to the Sons of Allah.
After all, philanthropy is practised by Islam. Right? So, in the eyes of Muslims, it is okay for a Muslim to practise philanthropy, but it isn’t okay for adherants of other faith traditions, or of no faith tradition.
Try to get around that charge of hypocrisy.
global oil production peaked, year-on-year, in 2005.
table 1.1d
notice we’re talking about real oil, here… not corn squeezings, not oil sands, not natural gas liquids, not biofuels.
petroleum production peaked, year-on-year, in 2005.
message khamenei about balochestan event(no video)
http://www.leader.ir/langs/fa/index.php?p=contentShow&id=6025
There oughta be a correlate to Godwin’s law that says you automatically lose any argument where you keep bringing up the subject of Israel if original topic was not about Israel.
aha, Naif Mabat.
you spose godwin had anything to say about the israelis and neocons (like ledeen) whose primary concern seems to be the threat iran poses to israel?
godwin probably would have been able to figure out the relationship between the iran and this propaganda effort to vilify iran, dont you think?
wadosy @ ad naseum. Sigh. You can’t fix…
i think when somebody has a prostate cancer you can imagine his death by any cause other than his cancer. i am not saying it is impossible, but i am saying it is quiet uncommon.
Bring Out Your Dead!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFXGwHsD_A
This is the video of Senegalese President visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSPlUSc2H0Q
Khamenei looks fine. Do you believe that the video is also fake?
I think it’s from the files. I don’t believe there was any meeting between the two when the Senegalese president was in Tehran over the weekend.
so, if Khamenei dies of natural causes, does he not get all those virgins? Wonder if his God will cut his heart out because of all the misery he has stood behind…hhhmmmmm
Suggested title of this piece: “Khamenei Room Temperature Watch”
This all vaguely reminds me of the very old SNL joke from the 70s: “General Francisco Franco is still critically dead…doctors refuse to speculate about his condition.”
Oh Khamenei, do hurry up and gather your ‘heavenly reward.’
What is this, the “All wadosy, all the time” thread?
If anything, your desperate spinning makes me more sure that your Supreme Leader is on his death bed. If he was really OK, you wouldn’t be so desperate, you’d just wait for the facts to prove Mr. Ledeen wrong.
Or, to put it in a shorter form: A stuck pig squeals!
Thank you PJM, for yet another fine article that is not going to be widely covered elsewhere.
First, how do we know the CIA wasn’t involved in JFK, the Iranian General bombing, nor Khameini ?…
because they’re Dead (or dying).
That being the case, we don’t want to make it look like we could be involved, hence the silence.
Dave, I’m not disagreeing with you about American Oil reserves, but we both know who gets the money and power in oil-driven energy vs. ‘clean’ energy. Frankly, personally I dislike the oil people…..
I don’t know where Mr. Ledeen gets his information from. On Oct.18.2009, Mr. Khamenei said in a message, Iran will punish the terrorist aggressors who targeted people and their security, the state IRIB TV reported. This was in response to the terrorist bombing in Southern Iran. Khamenei is not dead, stop spreading rumors unless Mr. Ledeen can prove otherwise.
I never said he was dead. And a second-hand report from state television isn’t very convincing.
For more information on the news about Khamenei visit: http://leader.ir/
42. Annie:
“so, if Khamenei dies of natural causes, does he not get all those virgins?”
Oh what I’d pay to see the look on his face when he found out the virgins were goats. hehe
Dr. Matt says…
…after dave says, “peak oil is total crap. We’ve been discovering some of the biggest reserves in HISTORY right here in the USA..”
dr matt, you’ve got to conjure up a little more enthusiasm than “i’m not disagreeing…”
especially in view of the fact that peak oil was the triggering motive for the 9/11 false flag operation that got this PNAC project underway.
we’ve got lots of ground to make up, seeing as how those idiots at PNAC came right out and said they needed “a new pearl harbor” in september of 2000, just before they were installed (by an election recount in a state governed by a PNAC signatory) into positions from which they could make their “new pearl harbor” happen.
so, lukewarm endorsements of “peak oil is total crap” aint gonna get it.
Check out this item from the pajamas archive, dated January 10, 2007:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/ledeen-mullah-is-still-dead-or-alive/
The complete story no longer seems available, but we have Ledeen at the time posting:
“Do you think Khamenei is alive or dead?”
“I don’t know. We have good reports on both sides.”
That was almost 3 years ago! And the “reports” Ledeen has now are no better than the ones had then.
Of course, everybody dies eventually, so if he keeps predicting Khamenei dead every few years, he’ll eventually be right. Still, it seems a rather cheap and sleazy way to try to make your name in journalism.
Not as cheap and sleazy though as trying to attract attention by posting vague and silly anti-Israel postings on a thread that is not Israel-related.
Cheers.
Hi everybody
He is alive.
http://www.tabnak.ir/fa/pages/?cid=69276
Wadosy, this is not a site for you to spread lies about me. I had no role in the yellowcake story, none at all. If you apologize, I’ll take you seriously. Otherwise, you’re out of business here.
Essence of human sciences lies in Koran
http://www.leader.ir/langs/en/index.php?p=contentShow&id=6033
I never said he was dead.
True enough, you didn’t. And the boy who cried wolf didn’t actually say there was a wolf. He was just, you know, raising questions.
Some things you don’t suggest unless you have at least some positive evidence.
If I suggest that Michael Ledeen’s sister is a prostitute, is the burden on you to prove that she isn’t?
And is it any less sleazy of me to hide behind: “I never said she was one. But until you prove she isn’t, we can’t know for sure”?
And for cryin out loud, can someone take out the garbage around here?
wadosy, your mama just called. Go upstairs from the basement. You forget to take your meds again.
Wow!!!
So many regime trolls and agents here lately ever since the rumors of the filthy fascist’s death started to come out.
May be they are all scared and breathing hard for their last breaths?!!!
Who knows when the monster dies but he WILL DIE like everybody else but the important thing is that his trolls will have to answer to the tortured people of Iran one day sooner than later!
The regime is sitting on borrowed time by a weak US administration and those troublesome Russians. At the end people will win their fight and those agents of the regime in this blog here will join them in their Islamic paradise!!!
“and those agents of the regime in this blog here will join them in their Islamic paradise!!!”
I mean joining the fascist Islamic regime’s in their own paradise.
Hey, I’ll be the first then; “He’s dead Jim.” Enter the anti-Christ.
As long as it is orthodox Muslim teaching that the dealings Islam has with the rest of the world is unidirectional, then no peace is possible. Sadat, the Shah, Wasfi Tal, amongst others tried to import the “rest
of the world” into their countries, and look at what happened.
It’s like a quarantine has to be maintained by Islam, lest it become contaminated or defiled.
Now, this is something that will never be considered by those Michael called, Accomplices to evil. Therefore, who is with me in setting up a US government in exile that would put Michael Ledeen’s sage advice into practise.
Rather than it being talked about until the cows come home.
This is very importan about khamenei’s coma.
http://www.farsnews.com/imgrep.php?nn=8807281597
Wadosy
“propaganda effort to vilify iran”
Iran shouldn’t be vilified; they apparently have no say so in their government nowadays, at least not nationally. The Mullacracy and IRG do a fine enough job vilifying themselves, with a little help from twitter. The world sees what Iran has become under its current rulers; no amount of spin on your part can erase what we have seen with our own eyes.
How Mullahs use photoshop like 3 years old girl;
This photo like many others has been amateurishly and unprofessionally photoshoped. shame on Fars News for being dishonest.
Anyone can detect that the photo is FAKE …
http://www.farsnews.com/plarg.php?nn=M575476.jpg
“On Oct.18.2009, Mr. Khamenei said in a message, Iran will punish the terrorist aggressors who targeted people and their security, the state IRIB TV reported.”
Oh, well if the free and independent IRIB said it it must be true. Its not as if the state ran the station.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/07/state-run-tv-takes-a-hit.html
The brave journalist Babak Dad (pronounced Daad, who has been in hiding since June elections fiasco) writes an article (Sorry it is in Farsi – If In get a chance I will translate it)in his web site with the title : Mr. Khamenehi! Please Stay Alive! Iranian people want you to see your own demise. Here is the link:
http://www.babakdad.blogspot.com/
Oh will, Am pretty sure he’s in a hurry to meet those, how many virgin in heaven?
Unlike thier Muhammad he got his when he still alive, or will he?
Mike’s latest wishful-thinking impending death notice. It’s become a cottage industry.
one more time for those who are reading-challenged: I said he was in a coma, not that he was dead. And I believe his condition is unchanged.
Hating on Mr. Ledeen is not going to undo the death of Khamenei.
Uh. We’re all gonna die eventually.
Death happens.
Coma is about as close to death as it gets.
And at K’s age?
Just sayin’.
65. Michael Ledeen,
Golly, Michael, it would seem you have single-handedly killed Khamenei by mentioning he’s comatose!
Do you feel powerful and stuff? lol
Michael, why the removal of so many of my posts???
Are you trying to protect me or stifle me?
So Ledeen is pulling stuff out of his you know what again. What exactly is news about that?
He won’t be convinced until he can poke Khamenei in the ribs personally.
As you may have heard the news of two past days, khamenei have had a meeting with female Quran researchers. please investigate about the reliability of that. Thank you.
as I said to amirahmadi, those are old archive photos. do you really think that, given all that’s going on, the Supreme Leader would have failed to make a forceful public statement if he were physically capable of it? seems unlikely to me.
I said he was in a coma, not that he was dead.
I hope you’re right. But I’ll believe it when I see some evidence to that effect.
Cheers.
Dear Mr Ledeen, what do you have to say to this?
http://farsi.khamenei.ir/photo-album?id=8253&pid=89236
I believe your news turns out to be false again, Grand Ayatollah Khamenei has met with Koran researchers today.
May god keep him for us as he is a wise leader.
Best of luck to you and your unreliable sources.
Mr Ledeen, he has met with hundreds if not thousands of women who are researchers in Koranic fields, it is not like they can make up such a huge lie, although you might argue as Gobbles said the bigger the lie, the easier it is for the public to believe it, I still believe Islamic republic would have shown a sign if Mr khamenei was having any health problems, because they can not tell people Mr khamenei has passed away out of the blue! You’ll see and hear more from him.
Mr Ledeen, I understand your argument but I believe you are a little bit misled by comparing Mr khamenei to third world dictators, Mr khamenei is not a media shy celebrity, but he doesn’t seek media attention either, your argument is based on him not appearing on televised speeches is understandable if you are talking about someone like Castro, Ayatollah Khamenei doesn’t appear on daily televised speeches . Also There’s no proof that those photos are archive photos.
IRIB has video of the meeting with the female scholars. Of course this will be dismissed as fake, old tape etc.
It’s like talking to a Birther; nothing will ever convice them that Obama is not a Kenyan/Muslim.
http://english.iribnews.ir/videoplayer_interview.aspx?videoID=710
Samuel:
Both were correct, past tense. Obama was born a Muslim and a Kenyan. Factcheck.org says he lost his Kenyan citizenship automatically when he turned 23, he became an apostate when he became a Christian.
Islamic government trolls are all over this page. I too hope Khamenei is alive but for a different reason and that’s for the Iranian people to hang him after liberation. Now trolls run along and don’t forget to kiss A$$ more of your defunct leader. Your time will come have no doubt!
David,
I’d also like to see President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld tried in a court of justice for attacking a country for all the wrong reasons. I’d also like to see Mr Ledeen answer to accusations such as the following in a court of justice:
****According to washington monthly, Mr Ledeen is accused of Yellow Cake forgery regarding Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussien , which included providing CIA with forged document and accusing Saddam’s regime of buying uranium from Nigeria. (Source: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0410.marshallrozen.html )****
I hope if you are looking for a fair trial of defunct leaders, you expect these to happen as well.
79. David:
“Islamic government trolls are all over this page”
They are bored and want to behead a woman for not ‘covering’ while they run around in their ‘bulging’ pants and fugly billy goat beards.
“Islamic Fashion” = Oxymoron.
Islamic men are a pox on humanity.
My prayer is for Islam to either become truly peaceful or die altogether and free the people from such a stifling ‘belief system’.
אלוהים יברך ישראל
I hope Mr Ledeen considers removing Delia’s comments, they are truly hateful.
84. Amirahmadi,
Hateful? Woman forced to ‘cover’ by Sharia is ‘cool’ with you, bro?
Women stoned to death or beheaded for wanting to divorce their husbands, ‘cool’ with you, ‘bro’?
Men who use their supposed ‘beliefs’ to keep women hidden is ‘a-okay’ with you, bro?
Puhlease.
Islam is not a religious of peace. Islam is evil.
Don’t even get me started on ‘Honor Killings’…I think Phyllis Chesler covers that.
You men who are supposedly of ‘peace’ should SHUN Sharia [dark ages] law. PERIOD. Otherwise you are pure scum and you shouldn’t be allowed in polite society.
If you [Islamists] want to be taken seriously as a religion of supposed ‘peace’, get rid of your extremists nutters just as white people got rid of the KKK bullcrap.
The leader in islam is responsible for all the ombuds that happen in regions or countries under his authority.
Under Mr. Khamenei authority many ombuds happened to many citizens and even to clerics more knowlegeable than him because they refused his leadership.
The human rights violations under Mr. Khamenei authority. Please refer to SHIA RELIGIOUS LEADERS AS VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS published by Amnesty International:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=3A7786D5D18CE69E802569000068A2C0&lang=e
Delia,
Unfortunately for you Muslims are well over a Billion and growing. Of course you only care about support for your little Zionist state. If the Muslims supported Zionism Pro-Zionists would be falling over themselves praising Islam.
Don’t worry soon enough the Israelis will share the same fate as their close friends the Afrikaners.
87. Samuel,
Islam will fail. It is evil. It is WRONG and it violates humanity on so many levels it’s despicable.
Unfortunately for you, God is not going to give you ‘virgins’ to masterbate you eternally in the afterlife. No. God is going to spit fire upon you and send demons to eat your soul.
To Delia:
Please allow me to have different beleive than you do.
Islam is not an evil as you mentioned but it is a great religion for peace and mercy.
The problem is that the ruler who rules in the name of islam is not applying the true islam but what makes him stay in power by all means even if it gave a bad reputation about islam and Mr. Khamenei and Iran is an example.
91. Jawad,
The Koran says otherwise and its evil intent is genocidal/suicidal/misogynistic/ and just plain backasswards.
Please explain to me why an ‘apostate’ can be killed in the name of Islam according to the Koran?
How’s he doing today, Mike? Still in the coma or is he feeling a little peppier?
93. artark,
I hope someone spiked his I.V. with Red Bull.
Nothin’ like dyin’ in style.
To Delia:
The APOSTAE is to be killed in islam only under very strict conditions and after trial. In case he/she was condemned as traitorous to islam he may be executed. It is the same concept as when someone is traitorous to his country then usually he/she will be executed.
Jawad,
Why even try to reason with a bigot like Delia?
No amount of logic or historical facts will work with such a fanatic.
Dear Samuel
The Quran tought us how to argue with others in An-Nahl (THE BEE)Chapter Verse:125 which is tranlated as:
Invite (all) to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: for thy Lord knoweth, best who have strayed from His Path, and who receive guidance.
MR Ledeen AKA DR ????it seems your magic lamp needs a tune up really bad ,he is aliveeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ,may be your magic lamps gets it right next , of course after tune up.
kose nani Ledeen. I just said bravo to you.