Iranian state media has confirmed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed during the strikes the United States and Israel conducted on the country. NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez reports from the White House on what impact the leader's death could have on the country and region.
Hard to grab good examples in the current state of his Telegram/Twitter/etc. apart from the famous ones like “woman is a flower” and the ones about never ever being mean to your wife (man was a great strategist). This is the vibe though:
I have some older articles saved regarding misconceptions about Iranians having the ISIS misogyny thing going on. Great examples in there. I will dig those up and ping you when I post them. Also should repost stuff like Booker Omole’s thoughts on their revolution.
Those are really sweet spirited. I wonder how he was IRL.
Edit also thank you. Sorry. They made me want to cry.
They really are, when I checked out the discussion group for his official Telegram chat, the stuff people were posting surprised me because it was all flower-themed, intensely so. Pink and red petals everywhere. Of course currently it is very death to America but the aesthetic for that is on point as well:
I saw that. Extremely appropos.
Who knows. Lots of people who do bad things can be personable, it’s one of the many weird things about humans.
Bad things like delaying the development of a thermonuclear anti-Tel Aviv device. For sure for sure
More nukes are never good and the fact that rearming is on the table for most nations shows how awful the general state of international relations is. Obviously the biggest culprit for the state of affairs is the United State.