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Shedding light on an Iranian enigma
Christa Case Bryant
The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes this past weekend removes a figure who has been at the heart of the Iranian regime since 1979. Veteran Middle East correspondent Scott Peterson sheds light on a man who during his 37-year tenure as supreme leader never left the country, held a press conference, or agreed to an interview.
Surviving imprisonment, torture, and assassination attempts, Mr. Khamenei sought to mobilize true believers to the revolutionary cause. And yet, Scott writes, the cleric resorted increasingly to repressive means as he 鈥減resided over a ripening Islamic revolution that was failing and increasingly unpopular.鈥�
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