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Mark Shaw <mshaw@panix.com> wrote:

https://www.foxnews.com/world/irans-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-dead-after-idf-strike-hits-tehran-compound-israeli-source-confirms

Iran's militant and unyielding supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, who ruled the Islamic Republic for more than three
decades and oversaw an era of harsh internal repression and
confrontation with the United States and Israel, has died
following the Israeli strike in Tehran, as his compound was
reduced to rubble, a senior Israeli official told Fox News
Digital.

"Khamenei was the contemporary Middle East's longest-serving
autocrat. He did not get to be that way by being a gambler.
Khamenei was an ideologue, but one who ruthlessly pursued the
preservation and protection of his ideology, often taking two
steps forward and one step back," Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior
director of FDD's Iran program, told Fox News Digital.

"Khamenei's worldview was shaped by his militant anti-Americanism
and antisemitism, which first manifested itself in his protests
against the Shah of Iran," he added.

Born April 19, 1939,

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in Mashhad, eastern Iran, Khamenei was
among the Islamist activists who played a central role in the
1979 revolution that overthrew the U.S.-backed Shah Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi. A close ally of Iran's first supreme leader,
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Khamenei rose through the new
system and served as president from 1981 to 1989 before becoming
supreme leader after Khomeini's death that same year.

Decades in power, Khamenei consolidated control over Iran's
political and security system, presiding over repeated crackdowns
on dissent and maintaining a hardline posture toward Washington
and Jerusalem.

"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's rule has been marked by unrelenting
brutality and repression, both within Iran and beyond its
borders," said Lisa Daftari, an expert on Iran and editor-in-chief
of The Foreign Desk. She pointed to executions and the enforcement
of strict social controls as defining features of the system
under Khamenei's leadership.

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