He Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled Iran with the surveillance and brutality of an autocrat convinced that his own people and the leading world power They tried to overthrow himand in the end that’s what they did. Khamení’s reign came to an end with the president’s announcement Donald Trump that he 86 year old supreme leader died on Saturday in air strikes joint efforts of the United States and Israel, consolidating a lost half century for their nation. While Middle East faces a unpredictable voidLet’s be clear: no one should mourn the death of a dictator who spent decades inflicting misery and bloodshed.
Khamení came to power in 1989 and organized his existence around an obsession with the West. As ruler, he crushed dissent, calling demands for reforms Western “sedition,” and expanded the intelligence apparatus of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to repress his own people. It impoverished its citizens to finance foreign interventions and a nuclear program which only brought isolation to Iran. Faced with protests from citizens, he responded with force, as in the slaughter of thousands of people earlier this year. Abroad, his legacy is one of destabilization, having built a so-called resistance shaft through Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
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