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Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spends all day sleeping and utilizing medicine whereas a lot of the nation lacks entry to wash water and electrical energy, in keeping with a social media account linked to Israel’s nationwide intelligence company.
“How can a pacesetter lead after they sleep half the day and spend the opposite half excessive on substances?” the Mossad’s Farsi account wrote Friday on X. “Water, electrical energy, life!”
“Consuming medicine and conversing with spirits usually are not fascinating traits for somebody main a rustic,” the account wrote on July 9.
The put up got here from a brand new X account with a premium subscription created final month, claiming to be the official Mossad spokesperson in Farsi — the official language of Iran — although the Israeli intelligence company has not formally confirmed the account’s affiliation.
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Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spends all day sleeping and utilizing medicine, a Mossad-linked social media account purported. (Getty Photos)
The account has made a number of posts over the past month about Khamenei’s well being and the state of Iran, together with its lack of unpolluted water, electrical energy and schooling.
“To everybody contacting us via personal messages, on your personal safety, please guarantee you might be utilizing a VPN,” the account’s bio reads.
A put up on the account addressed the designation of the newly appointed, however formally unnamed, commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, which is the command headquarters of the Iranian Armed Forces.
After the Tasnim Information Company, Iran’s semi-official information company related to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported that Iran wouldn’t reveal the commander’s id for his safety, the Mossad-linked account mentioned it already knew the title and urged Iranians to ship of their guesses.
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The Mossad-linked account has made a number of posts over the past month about Khamenei’s well being and the state of Iran. (Workplace of the Iranian Supreme Chief by way of AP)
The account responded to the “fortunate winner” who guessed the title Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi and advised him to “contact us privately to obtain your prize.”
The satirical jabs and provocative claims coming from the account are not like the best way the Mossad normally communicates with the general public, however two intelligence specialists advised JFeed, an Israeli information outlet, that the bizarre Mossad-linked account seems to be genuine.
“A few of the data it has shared might solely have come from Mossad,” Beny Sabti, an Iran skilled at Israel’s Institute for Nationwide Safety Research and a former IDF Persian-language officer, advised the outlet.
Khamenei’s alleged drug use has been prompt up to now, with an Iranian educational saying in 2022 that the Iranian Supreme Chief usually makes use of medicine.
The Israeli intelligence company has not formally confirmed the account’s affiliation. (AP)
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“Many viewers have no idea this, however Khamenei himself makes use of medicine,” Nour Mohamed Omara mentioned on Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated TV in Turkey on the time.
“He has a particular village in Balochistan, the place the medicine utilized by the chief are produced,” the tutorial added. “This village is run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and nobody is allowed in.”
The Ayatollah publicly declared drug use as “un-Islamic” after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Penalties for drug-related offenses can embody loss of life.
