Khamenei Awaits His Much Celebrated Meeting with Allah.
Concerns over Khamenei’s health may jeopardize nuke deal
BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF AND AP June 15, 2015, 6:33 am
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, June 4, 2014, busy figuring how to blame Israel for his demise. (photo credit: AFP/HO/Iranian Supreme Leader’s website)
(Karma. – LS)
Supreme leader may have months to live, Iranian press suggests; ensuing power struggle between hardliners, moderates could derail talks.
Concerns over the health of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who reportedly suffers from prostate cancer, are mounting as the P5+1 and Tehran negotiate an agreement over Iran’s disputed nuclear program.
In March, Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the clerics who appoint and can dismiss the country’s supreme leader, elected ultraconservative Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi as their new chairman.
According to the report, Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, a protege of Khamenei’s and a hardliner, has been positioning himself for the role, conducting purges of the more moderate potential candidates.
Larijani is the brother of Ali Larijani, Iran’s former chief nuclear negotiator and now chairman of the Iranian parliament, the Majlis.
A senior Western diplomat told the Telegraph that the West is now worried this power struggle could jeopardize the deal.
“With so many people jockeying for position, the hardliners will be tempted to prove their revolutionary credentials by vetoing any deal with the US,” he was quoted as saying. “The fear now is that this could jeopardize any progress we make in resolving the issue and lifting the sanctions.”
In April, Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany agreed in Lausanne, Switzerland to the outlines of a deal aimed at ending the decade-old standoff over Iran’s nuclear program.
According to this framework, due to be finalized this month, Iran will dramatically scale down its nuclear activities in order to render any dash to making nuclear weapons all but impossible.
In return Iran, which denies wanting nuclear weapons, will see painful sanctions lifted by the six powers — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.
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WarSclerotic 
June 16, 2015 at 3:37 PM
LS,
Khamenei was rumored to have died over 3 months ago.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/03/07/rumors-iran-dictator-khamenei-has-died/
I suspect he indeed died in early March and has since been replaced on TV by a body double.
The regime may be waiting until after the next nuclear deadline to announce his death and replacement, especially since Hussein is hell-bent on caving on all terms.
June 16, 2015 at 3:45 PM
Could be Mark, but the internet is so full of crap like this:
http://en.mediamass.net/people/barack-obama/deathhoax.html
🙂
June 16, 2015 at 3:48 PM
Just thinking…if Khamenei was replaced with a double, they’re going to need a fresh corpse when they finally announce his death. Sure would hate to be his double. 👿