Ayatollah Khamenei Loves Caviar And Vulgar Jokes, Defector Claims

Telegraph:

A catalogue of the private opulence and eccentric tastes of 70-year-old Ayatollah Khamenei and his family has been compiled by Iran's opposition Green Movement from the accounts of the defector, who is said to be in hiding in France.

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Comments

[RevBookburn]

09:51 PM on 01/04/2010

Didja hear about the Supreme Leader who wears an inflatable on his head.....

[joabear]

04:33 PM on 01/04/2010

Iran is gearing up for a Tiananment model of ruthlessness:

Time/Robin Wright

Faced with escalating turmoil, Iran's newly militarized regime now appears to be turning to the Tiananmen model to ensure its survival. The theocracy has signaled over the past week that it will exercise extraordinary military and judicial powers against opposition leaders, dissidents, street protesters and even sympathizers to end the growing turmoil. The regime's most urgent goal is to prevent opposition activists from turning next mont

Read more:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1951381,00.html?xid=rss-topstories#ixzz0bgG8LZTx

[joabear]

03:54 PM on 01/04/2010

Ahmadinejad and Kahemeini being dim-witted wasn’t enough, they have called Iranian people disagreeing with them as “nothing but dust and twigs” and only few days ago the big shot speaker for the bussed-in pro-IRR rally called Iranians opposing the Absolute Guardianship “goats and calves”.

These guys are setting up to do some major, major culling of the Iranian “goats and calves” herd. Listen to them, they are saying it out loud, they are gearing up, remember how Rwanda got started. They are characterizing the protesters/detainees as "infidels" and "enemies of God" a al mass executions of 1988-987.

The judiciary is passing a legislation to shorten the waiting period for an "infidel" or "mohareb in Persian" to be shortend by 15 days. They want the protesters to be executed within 5 days instead of the 20 days period under the current laws
ی دولت با ارائه طرح دوفوریتی، خواستار تقلیل زمان اجرای حکم محارب از بیست روز به پنج روز شدند.
http://www.hammihannews.com/news/8314

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/08/the-bloody-red-summer-of-1988.html

http://www.irna.ir/View/FullStory/?NewsId=875801

Execurtion of Political prisoners in1988:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/08/the-bloody-red-summer-of-1988.html

[nexxtep54]

02:18 PM on 01/04/2010

I'm sure the Pope loves caviar and enjoys vulgar jokes as well.

[deepfreezevideo]

11:12 AM on 01/04/2010

Unfortunately Mohsen Makhmalbaf's record of actions against Iranian civilians is not very clean either.
According to Wikipedia:
"In his early interviews (between 1979-1983), he proudly spoke of his role in purging the cultural scene from secular thought. His discourse frequently abused Iranian secular filmmakers, and vilified Iranian Left. During the first three years of revolution, he hailed the fundamentalist oppression of women, students, minorities, and Iranian Left as an authentic Islamic campaign against counter-revolutionary forces."

If this man is the spokesman for the Green protesters, they don't have much to look forward to if they are victorious.

[Ira7]

11:08 AM on 01/04/2010

I heard another defector claim that he loves Matzoh Ball Soup.

[ThinkCreeps]

02:04 AM on 01/04/2010

An unpleasant hypocrite in charge of a religious organization?! I'm shocked! Shocked!

[andhakari]

01:45 AM on 01/04/2010

"His cloaks are said to be woven from hair of specially bred camels."
I'm so jealous.

[ruhaba]

04:51 PM on 01/03/2010

He also likes BLOOD of Iranian.

[bismillah001]

04:19 PM on 01/03/2010

Hmm, I suppose that's not as bad Ehud Barak, who |sraeli Arab MK Jamal Zahalka recently said enjoys "classical music and k|||ing children in Gaza"

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1139054.html

[Paralogos]

01:57 PM on 01/03/2010

Um, isn't caviar a traditional Iranian delicacy?

[Kap Hop]

06:01 AM on 01/03/2010

"If the Western governments are serious enough in putting pressure on the regime by applying economic sanctions, then they should follow these leads and find these bank accounts and confiscate their deposits..." - Are Western governments going after Khamenei's money?

[Foxrun]

08:48 AM on 01/04/2010

Whenever Western Gov. go after U.S. tax payers money that was given to Wall Street bankers. Hey, buddy we want to bail out Americans before anything else - remember the national interest of the American people comes first!

[anesthesia84]

02:09 AM on 01/03/2010

If a lie is repeated enough times it becomes truth. A person who claims to be a former bodyguard who also happens to have run away from Iran now has sensational claims....hmmmm I seem to remember Ahmed Chalabi's claims about Saddam and Iraq. And people wonder why we are in the position we are in.

[UnoDosUltraviolento]

09:01 PM on 01/02/2010

An Ayatollah, caviar and dirty jokes...

Can somebody come up with a joke?

[andhakari]

01:48 AM on 01/04/2010

Two rabbis walk into a bar...

[InfinteShibumi]

04:50 PM on 01/02/2010

They're just men, after all.