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The very recent demise of Iran's clown and religious Supreme Leader [for life] Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been eulogized in much the same way as the Islamic Republic Guard Corps' Qasem Soleimani had been by some in the leftist press.
The media lost their minds back when President Trump turned Qasem Soleimani into a puff of smoke and bad memories. Remember the hand-wringing, the solemn editorials about "escalation" and "proportionality," as if the world's leading sponsor of terror deserved a polite retirement party? So it comes as no shock whatever that they're handling the death of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the man who just got turned into ash in the first wave of airstrikes Saturday morning, delivering a serious body blow to the Iranian regime, with the same pearl-clutching reverence.
Of course the major outlets are running obituaries for this particular clown, wasting perfectly good ink and pixel space on what amounts to a love letter to a theocratic tyrant. You'd be forgiven for thinking you'd stumbled onto the Babylon Bee, that elite satire outfit, but no, this is the genuine article, straight from The Washington Post.
As some sharp-eyed observers pointed out, it reads less like journalism and more like a particularly delusional dating app profile: "An early follower of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the austere cleric who inspired the revolution against Iran’s U.S.-backed monarchy, Ayatollah Khamenei staunchly opposed the United States and Israel, rejected Western “liberalism,” and adhered strictly to fundamentalist social policies.As supreme leader of Iran since 1989, when he succeeded Khomeini, Ayatollah Khamenei wielded ultimate political and religious authority in the Islamic republic, outranking the elected president and overseeing the country’s armed forces, internal security apparatus, judiciary, state media and foreign policy.
After Trump lost the 2020 election, Ayatollah Khamenei said its chaotic aftermath, marked by Trump’s baseless fraud claims, illustrated “the ugly face of liberal democracy” in the United States and made clear the country’s “definite political, civil [and] moral decline.”
When Iran was convulsed by widespread protests after the September 2022 death in custody of a young woman who was arrested by Islamic "morality police" for a dress-code violation, the supreme leader publicly blamed the United States and Israel and backed a deadly crackdown. How, he wondered, could some people "not see the foreign hand" behind the "rioting."
With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables." But like the uncompromising Khomeini, he opposed moderates' efforts to promote political and social reforms domestically and to secure rapprochement with the United States."
Avuncular? Easy smile? Fond of Victor Hugo?
After Trump lost the 2020 election, Ayatollah Khamenei said its chaotic aftermath, marked by Trump’s baseless fraud claims, illustrated “the ugly face of liberal democracy” in the United States and made clear the country’s “definite political, civil [and] moral decline.”
When Iran was convulsed by widespread protests after the September 2022 death in custody of a young woman who was arrested by Islamic "morality police" for a dress-code violation, the supreme leader publicly blamed the United States and Israel and backed a deadly crackdown. How, he wondered, could some people "not see the foreign hand" behind the "rioting."
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With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables." But like the uncompromising Khomeini, he opposed moderates' efforts to promote political and social reforms domestically and to secure rapprochement with the United States."
Avuncular? Easy smile? Fond of Victor Hugo?
This is the man, unlike Santa Claus, who spent decades orchestrating terror proxies across the Middle East, crushing his own people under heel, and dreaming aloud of wiping Israel off the map, and the paper of record wants us to know he had literary tastes. It's almost touching, in a macabre way. Almost as if the Washington Post has decided that the appropriate response to the violent end of a man who embodied evil dressed in clerical robes is to polish his halo and murmur about his poetry hobby.
Look, when evil gets its comeuppance, whether it's Soleimani in Baghdad or Khamenei in Tehran, the only surprise should be that it took this long. The rest is just the usual media theater: solemn faces, furrowed brows, and a quiet hope that maybe, just maybe, the bad guys aren't really that bad after all. But they are. And sometimes, thank God, justice arrives with wings and precision-guided munitions.
Look, when evil gets its comeuppance, whether it's Soleimani in Baghdad or Khamenei in Tehran, the only surprise should be that it took this long. The rest is just the usual media theater: solemn faces, furrowed brows, and a quiet hope that maybe, just maybe, the bad guys aren't really that bad after all. But they are. And sometimes, thank God, justice arrives with wings and precision-guided munitions.
As Iranians worldwide are saying and will be repeated: thank you, President Trump.
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