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Originally Posted by ORAC

Multiple sources reporting rumours out of Iran that Ayaltollah Ali Khamenei, at the age of 85, has fallen into a coma.

Reports of his demise appear to be greatly exaggerated.

Originally Posted by Newsweek on 18 Nov 2024

Iran has hit back against social media claims that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is close to death or in a coma, by publishing a picture of him meeting a Lebanese official. The photo on X, formerly Twitter, purports to show a meeting between the Iranian leader and Mojtaba Amani, Iran's ambassador to Lebanon at noon Sunday, November 17, in Tehran.

Its publication followed tweets claiming Khamenei was in a coma or dead which had erupted on November 16. Just a day earlier, on November 15, Iran International had reported discussions by the nation's Assembly of Experts about candidates in the running to succeed him, including Khamenei's son Mojtaba Khamenei. But the need to identify a successor resulted from the risk of assassination faced by the supreme leader, not because of ill health, according to the report.

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