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The 74-year-old Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since giving an address in Tehran three weeks ago, was said by Iranian sources to be suffering from increasingly acute health problems.
Citing Iranian sources, The Times of London reported Thursday that Khamenei, who has served as Supreme Leader since 1989 and who has yet to appoint an heir, may have suffered a relapse of a chronic illness and that he was convalescing after collapsing during a private meeting.
October 31, 2013,
Iranian reports say supreme leader's health worsening | The Times of Israel
In Nov 2010 cables released by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks include remarks from an Iran source in 2009 saying Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has cancer and he is in terminal stage of leukemia.
There is no official confirmation of this news of course.
Citing Iranian sources, The Times of London reported Thursday that Khamenei, who has served as Supreme Leader since 1989 and who has yet to appoint an heir, may have suffered a relapse of a chronic illness and that he was convalescing after collapsing during a private meeting.
October 31, 2013,
Iranian reports say supreme leader's health worsening | The Times of Israel
In Nov 2010 cables released by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks include remarks from an Iran source in 2009 saying Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has cancer and he is in terminal stage of leukemia.
There is no official confirmation of this news of course.