(hope it's true)
Go baby go!!
| http://pajamasmedia.com/2006/12/special_to_pjm_iran_supreme_le.php wrote: |
by Michael Ledeen
Three days ago, Iran’s dictator, Supreme Leader Ayatollah ali Khamenei, was rushed to the vast medical facility traditionally known as “Vanak” hospital (it now has an Arabic name that means “the 12th Imam Hospital”), a 1,200-room facility that saves half of its beds for the leadership.
Khamenei is known to be suffering from cancer, and taking considerable quantities of an opium-based pain killer. He has lost more than 17 pounds in the past ten months, and was told last spring that he was unlikely to see another New Year (In the Iranian calendar, the New Year begins at the end of March).
Khamenei first complained of chills, and then broke out in a cold sweat. He lay down to rest, and began to lose feeling in his feet, at which point his aides got him to the hospital.
Amidst maximum security, and under orders that the event be kept secret at all costs, the theocrat was placed in one of the luxurious suites reserved for the country’s most important figures. Khamenei’s blood pressure and pulse were alarmingly low, and his physicians at
first feared some sort of hemorrhage. But they could find no trace of internal bleeding, and concluded that he had had some sort of cardiac crisis. |
:clapping:
Now's a good time for America to step up it's rhetoric and try to push for a revoltion with the Iranian youth.
I wonder if Pres will try something while he can. Wouldn't that be fun. 
Here's one of his statements...
| Quote: |
| human rights are a weapon in the hands of our enemies to fight Islam |
Hm, perhaps we won't see an Iran-Israeli war after all. That would be nice.
I just hope he has to step down for health reasons before he finishes developing nukes, and that the person who replaces him is not even worse than him.
| ocalhoun wrote: |
| Hm, perhaps we won't see an Iran-Israeli war after all. That would be nice. |
No argument there
| ocalhoun wrote: |
| I just hope he has to step down for health reasons before he finishes developing nukes, and that the person who replaces him is not even worse than him. |
The big if, since the Assembly of Experts which elects/appoints the Supreme Leader:
| That BBC thing wrote: |
| ... is dominated by conservatives such as its chairman, Ayatollah Ali Meshkini. Former President Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, who lost the 2005 presidential election to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is deputy chairman. |
-see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/iran_power/html/assembly.stm
Hopefully Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani has some bad blood with Ahmadinejad and may help appoint a leader who may add a different dimension to the current leadership duo and may hold at least slightly more moderate opinions on how to deal with the West, the nuclear issue, and domestic political reform. Given that the group is made up of clerics and are described as being "conservatives" this may not happen, but one can wish.I have temporarily -locked- this thread.
Edit:
After speaking about this thread it has been decided that this thread should be reopened.
From now on I will not moderate this thread, so if you want to report it, only do it to me if I'm the only moderator online ...
thank you
Maybe he'll step down in the fall of 2008, and be replaced with a more moderate Supreme Leader at the same time that the U.S. replaces their "Supreme Leader" with a more moderate (or completely leftist) leader. That would make an odd scenario... now all we've got to do is work on that Korean guy 
I still haven't heard anything other than from where I posted that link, so I'm still not convinced he's that sick.
I am certain, though, that if he IS sick, he won't give up power until the very end. That's why he's hiding the report that he's sick.
I even forgot to mention Castro, and our friend Tony. The world really is getting ready for a change in leadership. Now the real debate is whether the new leadership will have new philosophies, or just piggyback on the old leaders...
Then we've still got to work on Putin and Chavez, perhaps they'll moderate their personalities and ideas... It could be a hoax, but we won't know until he dies, lol. Although, I did find some other things that support that he has cancer, and when he was diagnosed, he was given a year to live.
what a desperation.
all hope for the citezens of a super power to wait an old man's death. 
| palavra wrote: |
what a desperation.
all hope for the citezens of a super power to wait an old man's death. |
lol
Actually power in Iran cannot be compared at all to that in Cuba or Syria. It is a completely different type of regime. The power in Iran is distributed among several houses and to think that a major shift in Iran's policy will happen due to Khameni's death is far from reality. | palavra wrote: |
what a desperation.
all hope for the citezens of a super power to wait an old man's death. |
All hope?
Hardly. A little side note with a bit of good news to enlighten our day is all.
i think that even if he dies someone will replace him and maby that someone is even worse than he is
I just can't wait till the Commander in Chimp announces this by himself.
Great news, someone's finally dying without any help from the US Army. Cheers!!
