At any point along the way, the guy in the picture about could have figured out that his religion was wrong, and he was letting his mouth write checks that his butt couldn’t cash. But nope, he followed his arrogance all the way to it’s conclusion.
If Hell is real, that’s where Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is currently doing anything but chilling. Or having any amount of fun. But he’ll have plenty of time to argue with Muhammad about how they got into the mess that they’re in.
Let’s not kid ourselves, here. A sincere belief in Islam is the reason why Khamenei got his keister blown up. Yeah, one can point out that most Islamic world leaders aren’t like that guy. But though I don’t know for certain what they might be thinking, most of them don’t seem to sincerely believe their professed religion, whatever it is that they might publicly say. If they did, the world would probably be engulfed in bloodshed.
What made Khamenei different is that he actually believed his own bullshit. To give you an idea of his own misguided sincerely, he believed that the Islamic messiah would follow a specific route after coming to earth. He wanted to build a superhighway to expedite this hypothetical trip. This would not be a pragmatic reason to allocate massive resources, but this was a megaproject that he wanted to fund.
The guy also had a passionate hatred of Jews, and the state of Israel. Like most such people, it definitely was not because he was thinking for himself. It was because of his religion. According to Islam, Muslims are supposed to become the only religion, and in the days leading up to that, Jews couldn’t hide behind rocks, because the rocks themselves would tell Muslims to kill the Jews attempting to hide behind them.
I’m gonna show my hand and just admit that I’m no foreign policy expert. No surprise there, right? Yet, even from the position I’m in, I can say with confidence that forming foreign policy based on a hatred for Jews just because of a 7th century child molester is insane.
Yet, this was what was motivating Khamenei, to the point of being the number one state sponsor of terror, and wanting nuclear weapons to threaten anyone who might see his insanity as such. And it didn’t exonerate him that he repeatedly attacked Israel, even though he stood no chance of winning. Or that he hyperinflated Iran’s currency just to fund his war machine.
There’s a reason you don’t want your country to be run by a religious fanatic whose spirituality makes no sense. Any decision that he’ll make won’t be what’s good for you. It will all be for whatever satisfies his religious conpulsions.
And in Khamenei’s case, those compulsions included fanatical hatred, not just for Jews, but also for any Muslim who doesn’t belong to the sect that he was running. And yes, some Muslims view other Muslims as infidels, a fact that has made the Middle East the mess that it is.
So, now that Khamenei is done and dusted, the IRGC’s new head fanatic is Ayatollah Arafi:
Oh.
Was. He was the Supreme Leader. For a few hours. I guess that that job has a high turnover rate, now.
Personally, I knew that the Ayatollah was dead the moment that Americans started moving military assets, including aircraft carriers, to the region. I think about the amount if resources it takes to move such assets, and I have my doubts that they’d do that for nothing.
Of course, the fact that Iranian protests swept the country and the IRGC didn’t immediately crush them as one might expect communicates that they couldn’t. Under such circumstances, it’s easy to tell that any tyrant’s days are numbered.
Because the IRGC was pissed off and has more weapons than sense, they started firing missiles at other countries, and even attacked French assets, even though they weren’t involved. Once again, those who insisted that it would be okay if the IRGC had nukes look stupid, and we have yet more proof that they don’t have an opinion that’s worth listening to.
There’s something fascinating about the timing of Khamenei’s death. It came right before the Jewish observance of Purim. Purim would be a celebration of the fact that the Jews survived an attempt by a genocidal madman to wipe them out, because the Persian king helped to thwart his scheme. You can read more about it in the book of Esther, which is in the Bible.
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