He expired on his own terms, mid-resistance, surrounded by his closest friends and military aides
Ali Khamenei, the “Black Lives Matter” advocate and long-serving supreme leader of Iran, was a guiding light to Democratic lawmakers, Ivy League professors, and other progressive ideologues who endorsed his intellectual appraisal of America’s evil and the treachery of Jews.
In darkness they must now persist.
The ayatollah died like a dog Saturday when his “secure” compound in central Tehran was caved in by several dozen of the biggest, most beautiful bombs ever made. Khamenei’s body, so austere and worldly, torn to shreds. His mangled face adorned with one of history’s most distinguished beards. His agile mind—inquisitive and playful—literally blown amidst the ashes of scholarly texts and quirky beach reads. A name crossed off the top of Uncle Sam’s list. The emphatic ring of Mother Freedom’s bell. It must have felt as if the whole wide world was raining down. Because it was.
“Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social. He was 86.
The Iranian people cheered a tyrant’s demise and hoped for what could be. You could tell their joy was real and not the Kamala Harris kind. The ayatollah’s left-wing comrades sobbed like sloppy seventh graders. They shook their fists at mushroom clouds and wept for what had been. The revolution. The hostages. The oil nonsense. Decades of degenerate behavior and the targeting of American soldiers. The homespun hipster in his button-down shirt (also killed). The slow death of the Iranian economy, which even the Obama nuclear shake-down couldn’t stop.
They had to hand it to the supreme leader. Fans commended him for dying honorably—on his own terms, mid-resistance, cowering in a bunker, surrounded by his closest friends and military commanders. They touted his progressive bona fides—he understood that decolonization was more than vibes and essays. In May 2020, he penned an eloquent clapback against white supremacy after the death of George Floyd. He never took Trump’s calls or laughed at a misogynistic joke, which in some ways made him even more of a winner than the USA men’s hockey team. He inspired a generation of Ivy League losers to hate Jews even more than they hate themselves.
Khamenei’s death was a crippling blow to America’s elite institutions, many of which had presumably shortlisted the supreme leader in their search for a commencement speaker. It was basically the last remaining option to forestall a shrieking walkout. Now what? The students and faculty who supported Iran’s proxy, Hamas, and its “anti-colonial insurgency,” are naturally devastated. Their terrorist allies have been crushed. They must endure the moral indignity of mourning a tyrant who murdered thousands and repressed millions. It remains to be seen which campus chapters of Feminist Fatties for Palestine will issue statements denouncing Iranian women for burning their hijabs. One can only marvel at the magnitude of self-absorption required to exist this way.
The terrorists’ allies in Congress were too distraught to pretend anymore. “This is who they are,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) huffed in response to the airstrikes that took out Khamenei. She was referring to the United States of America. Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D.) apologized—to all the Iranians dancing with delight in New York City. He was channeling former president Barack Obama, who never stopped hoping he would get the chance to bow submissively before His Eminence. On the bright side, Khamenei’s downfall could open up a lucrative new market for Michelle Obama’s fashion memoir.
The garment rending in the media was also a sight to behold. It’s been several years since the Washington Post was deservedly mocked for lamenting the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the “austere religious scholar” who pioneered the rise of ISIS. Many assumed they would be too embarrassed to do that again. Evidently not. The Post‘s obituary described Khamenei as an “avuncular figure” with a “bushy white beard and easy smile” who enjoyed classic Westerns and Les Misérables. Mehdi Hasan melted down in public. He was not alone.
Ben Rhodes, the former Obama aide who recently implored Iranians to “negotiate” with their oppressors, may never recover. He took Khamenei’s side in 2009 when the regime was shooting protesters in the streets, and bragged of manipulating halfwit journalists to rally support for the nuclear deal he crafted. Rhodes’s public comments in response to the supreme leader’s death reflected a profound anguish at the thought of not being invited to the funeral.
It is often said a man’s enemies reveal the content of his character. As far as Khamenei is concerned, the pathetic zeal of his admirers will supply the final judgment.
Rest in pieces, thug.
