Iranian state media has confirmed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed during the strikes the United States and Israel conducted on the country. NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez reports from the White House on what impact the leader's death could have on the country and region.
But they were still enriching uranium covertly. How’s that?
Because Iran wasn’t a dictatorship.
It had factions.
You know how Iran was always months away from nukes? It was. That was the hard liner faction who believed that only nukes would ensure Iran’s safety wanting to be able to quickly have one if the fatwa was removed.
Did you not know this? If not, you should stop watching/reading the new sources that didn’t tell you this widely available information. They’re not new sources but propaganda sources.
Isn’t ayatollah the supreme leader?
Isn’t the president the executive branch?
Jesus Christ, do you have any critical thinking skills?
As far as I know, ayatollah is entitled to command all leaders of all branches.
That’s why he’s called the supreme leader.
It’s not true?
Stop ignoring everything else I wrote you fucking propaganda poisoned jackass.
Stop being unnecessarily rude.
Also: am I right in my point about ayatollah supremacy?
No, you’re not.
You’re arguing by title to ignore the points made like a sophist. That is explicitly rude, while trying to pretend it isn’t.
Bad faith responses deserve nothing other than the reflection of the rudeness they project.
I think we disagree.
By the way, I’m from Russia, and we have our own “totally not authoritarian” head of just one branch of government.
And the ayatollah - he’s effectively the head of all branches, while also having religious authority. It’s very hard to see any democracy here.
Nuclear power?
First of all, they were enriching uranium openly, not covertly, with IAEE monitoring their every move. Unlike Israel which has undeclared and never inspected nuclear arsenal.
Second, enriching uranium has non-military uses like nuclear medicine (at which Iran is actually a global leader btw).
And third, well, it’s easier to get 90% enriched uranium from 60% than it is from zero, in case the ruling changes.
Having enough 60% enriched uranium to make a thermonuclear bomb if they change the ruling ≠ weaponizing their nuclear program