These “sources” are probably the same people who show Mr. Ledeen footages of executions from the 1980s and tell him “it happened yesterday”. Or the likes of Fakhravar who have spent a couple of months in jail for petty crimes and have somehow managed to convince these “experts” at the AEI that they’ve been “important political prisoniers”.
No! Mr. Ledeen. He’s pretty much alive:
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ML:
He may indeed be alive, although he is certainly not very much alive. The best case for him is that he is hanging on, albeit gravely ill. And photographs like this not only do not prove he is alive, they increase suspicion that he is not. As I have been saying for several days, all he has to do is walk to the window and wave, at which point I will denounce my source and apologize for wasting your time.
But he hasn’t done anything like that, so far as I can tell.
