"Iran's 86-year-old supreme leader, who believes that he represents God's will on Earth, ordered what now appears to be one of the deadliest two-day mass slaughters in modern history. According to estimates provided by two anonymous senior officials in the country's ministry of health, as many as 30,000 citizens may have been killed during this 48-hour rampage on January 8 and 9."
"The terms of this lease-imposed by the landlord upon the tenants-are nonnegotiable: You, the tenant, will live inside the religious fever dream of a man, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who viewed the state not as a vessel for national advancement, but as a weapon for personal retribution, and whose copious writings offered detailed pronouncements about the religious penalties for fornicating with animals, yet no insights on how to run a modern economy. "Economics," he once said, "is for donkeys.""
Ali Khamenei, Iran's 86-year-old supreme leader, ordered a two-day massacre on January 8–9, 2026, that may have killed as many as 30,000 citizens according to anonymous senior health officials. If verified, the 48-hour rampage would rank among modern history's deadliest single episodes of state violence. The Islamic Republic operates as a predatory lease imposed in 1979 rather than a social-contract state. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini framed the state as a vehicle for personal retribution and dismissed economics as "for donkeys." Khamenei has ruled for decades while Setad amassed tens of billions in assets, many confiscated from Iranians who fled.
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