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2024-11-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

RUMINT: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei In Coma After 'Serious Illness'? Dead?? Fact-Checking Claim UPDATE: Iran says alive, publishes photo

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Posted by badanov 2024-11-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10329 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 "He's pining for the fjords"

Posted by Frank G 2024-11-17 00:13|| 2024-11-17 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Set as headline. I join the vultures in waiting to discover whether or not it is true.

But in the meantime, my thanks to badanov and 3dc for pulling together a truly exhaustive roundup on the subject.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-11-17 01:25|| 2024-11-17 01:25|| Front Page Top

#3
#1 "He's pining for the fjords"
Posted by: Frank G 2024-11-17 00:13

...Beat me to it, doggone it. ;)

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-11-17 07:22|| 2024-11-17 07:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Re: "terminal illness", any illness is terminal if you die from it.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-11-17 07:51|| 2024-11-17 07:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Didn't Bibi predict something big was going to happen soon in Iran recently. Maybe poison? Russian style.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2024-11-17 08:22|| 2024-11-17 08:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Re: "terminal illness", any illness is terminal if you die from it.

So you are saying he has Covid.

Posted by SteveS 2024-11-17 09:04|| 2024-11-17 09:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Are those Mossad drones in that picture?

Heck, he's a Muzzie big turban, that's a terminal illness right there.

Posted by alanc 2024-11-17 09:09|| 2024-11-17 09:09|| Front Page Top

#8 possible successors to Khamenei have been maneuvering for years to line up support in the 90 member 'Assembly of Experts' and the 12 members of the Guardian Council.

if Khamenei is actually in a coma for an extended period, the Assembly of Experts is, per the Iran constitution, to designate an interim Supreme Leader.

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-11-17 09:22|| 2024-11-17 09:22|| Front Page Top

#9 What, they don't have stomach cancer there?

Posted by Cesare 2024-11-17 10:35|| 2024-11-17 10:35|| Front Page Top

#10 If this pans out: the good news just keeps on coming!

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2024-11-17 10:36|| 2024-11-17 10:36|| Front Page Top

#11 if Khamenei is actually in a coma for an extended period, the Assembly of Experts is, per the Iran constitution, to designate an interim Supreme Leader.

At the Vatican, they issue a puff of white smoke. In Iran they issue radioactive black clouds from various nuke sites

Posted by Frank G 2024-11-17 11:18|| 2024-11-17 11:18|| Front Page Top

#12 No virgins for you, bad boy.

Posted by Chomomp Glinert5355 2024-11-17 11:55|| 2024-11-17 11:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Life expectancy on terror bosses isn't looking so good this year.

Posted by Angstrom 2024-11-17 15:17|| 2024-11-17 15:17|| Front Page Top

#14 Mossad would know before anyone else.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-11-17 17:22|| 2024-11-17 17:22|| Front Page Top

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