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More importantly, who do they pander to?
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WashPost Touts Khamenei as Man With an ‘Easy Smile’ and Love of 'Poetry'.
Newsbusters | 03/01/2026 | Nicholas Fondacaro.
In the wake of Iranian Supreme Leader Aylatollah Khamenei coming down with a killer headache after getting a U.S. warhead on his forehead, on Saturday, The Washington Post published one of their infamous glowing remembrances of Islamic terrorists. The paper fondly remembered the brutal Islamic dictator as a “avuncular figure” with an “easy smile” and love for “Persian poetry.”
Readers might remember when The Post fluffed up the former leader of ISIS as an “austere religious scholar”; well, they're back at it again with Khamenei in their obituary titled: “Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is dead at 86.”
The sub-headline brushed over Khamenei’s authoritarian rule: “He played a behind-the-scenes role in Iran’s Islamic revolution, served as president in the 1980s and dominated the country for more than three decades.”
“Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Shiite Muslim cleric who played a behind-the-scenes role in Iran’s Islamic revolution, served two terms as president in the 1980s and dominated the country for more than three decades as supreme leader, was killed Saturday as Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on Iran. He was 86,” wrote William Branigin.
After noting the recent protests and the deadly crackdowns by the regime, The Post aided Khamenei’s framing that Trump was responsible for the death of the protesters:
He had previously called on Iranians to rise up and pledged U.S. backing after widespread anti-government demonstrations broke out in December....
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The Islamic Fascist Republic massacring also its own civilians. Jan 2026 : 45-80,000:
*"The regime provides no information on whether they are detained or have been killed. Based on the available evidence, a more realistic estimate is at least 45,000 people death -some people estimate it to 80,000." [LBC]
*Darya Safai, from her Sunday 1.25.26 speech [On FB] "In just three days, we lost 60,000 beautiful young lives.
Just like in 1988: 30,000.
iran1988.org
Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post:
Opinion: The world’s "even-handed" obituaries for Khamenei are a jarring joke. Calling the architect of 10/7 and a decades-long terror campaign a "hard-line cleric" or "regional power" is a complete moral failure.
More importantly, who do they pander to?
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WashPost Touts Khamenei as Man With an ‘Easy Smile’ and Love of 'Poetry'.
Newsbusters | 03/01/2026 | Nicholas Fondacaro.
In the wake of Iranian Supreme Leader Aylatollah Khamenei coming down with a killer headache after getting a U.S. warhead on his forehead, on Saturday, The Washington Post published one of their infamous glowing remembrances of Islamic terrorists. The paper fondly remembered the brutal Islamic dictator as a “avuncular figure” with an “easy smile” and love for “Persian poetry.”
Readers might remember when The Post fluffed up the former leader of ISIS as an “austere religious scholar”; well, they're back at it again with Khamenei in their obituary titled: “Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is dead at 86.”
The sub-headline brushed over Khamenei’s authoritarian rule: “He played a behind-the-scenes role in Iran’s Islamic revolution, served as president in the 1980s and dominated the country for more than three decades.”
“Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Shiite Muslim cleric who played a behind-the-scenes role in Iran’s Islamic revolution, served two terms as president in the 1980s and dominated the country for more than three decades as supreme leader, was killed Saturday as Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on Iran. He was 86,” wrote William Branigin.
After noting the recent protests and the deadly crackdowns by the regime, The Post aided Khamenei’s framing that Trump was responsible for the death of the protesters:
He had previously called on Iranians to rise up and pledged U.S. backing after widespread anti-government demonstrations broke out in December....
WashPost Touts Khamenei as Man With an ‘Easy Smile’ and Love of 'Poetry'
In the wake of Iranian Supreme Leader Aylatollah Khamenei coming down with a killer headache after
The Islamic Fascist Republic massacring also its own civilians. Jan 2026 : 45-80,000:
*"The regime provides no information on whether they are detained or have been killed. Based on the available evidence, a more realistic estimate is at least 45,000 people death -some people estimate it to 80,000." [LBC]
*Darya Safai, from her Sunday 1.25.26 speech [On FB] "In just three days, we lost 60,000 beautiful young lives.
Just like in 1988: 30,000.
1988 Massacre - Iran 1988 Massacre
Justice for Victims of 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) -Iran1988.org
iran1988.org
Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post:
Opinion: The world’s "even-handed" obituaries for Khamenei are a jarring joke. Calling the architect of 10/7 and a decades-long terror campaign a "hard-line cleric" or "regional power" is a complete moral failure.