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Miles Archer

(21,822 posts)
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 11:20 AM Friday

Iran's "supreme leader, Ali Khamenei" throws massive shade at saber-rattling swaggering Orange Rapist Felon Grampy

Sparked by an ongoing economic crisis, demonstrations have erupted across Iran, and in turn, Khamenei has vowed to crack down on protesters he accused of working on behalf of Trump, whose administration has long sought to topple Iran’s government. Trump made an explicit threat Thursday that his administration would “hit them very hard” should Iran harm any protesters, bragging that the United States was “ready to do it.”

Khamenei took to social media on Friday, however, to attack Trump for his open threats, and offered a bleak prediction for the president’s immediate future.

“The U.S. President who judges arrogantly about the whole world should know that tyrants & arrogant rulers of the world, such as Pharaoh, Nimrod, Mohammad Reza [Pahlavi] & other such rulers saw their downfall when they were at the peak of their hubris,” Khamenei wrote in a social media post on X. “He too will fall.”

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“The US President has said that if the Iranian govt. does such-and-such, I’ll take the side of the rioters,” Khamenei wrote in a social media post on X. “The rioters have put their hopes in him. If he’s so capable, he should manage his own country.”

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674865105/

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Iran's "supreme leader, Ali Khamenei" throws massive shade at saber-rattling swaggering Orange Rapist Felon Grampy (Original Post) Miles Archer Friday OP
Never thought I would say this, but, MarineCombatEngineer Friday #1
The key part of it is that Trump is absolutely NOT taking care of what's happening in his own back yard Miles Archer Friday #3
While I am very happy to see the Iranian Uprising Deep State Witch Friday #2
And if the Iran/Iraq war wasn't a lesson learned on Iranian resistance, MarineCombatEngineer Friday #4

MarineCombatEngineer

(17,761 posts)
1. Never thought I would say this, but,
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 11:27 AM
Friday

I agree with Khamenei, not on the crackdown on protestors, but on Trumpedo minding his own fucking business.
What a crazy world we live in.

Miles Archer

(21,822 posts)
3. The key part of it is that Trump is absolutely NOT taking care of what's happening in his own back yard
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 11:53 AM
Friday

I don't think we've ever had a president who completely lacked the ability to focus on what was important to the people he is "supposed to" be serving.

Deep State Witch

(12,579 posts)
2. While I am very happy to see the Iranian Uprising
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 11:32 AM
Friday

I'm mad that Canks had to go stick his dick into it. The situation is fucked enough already. Of course, now the people in Iran think that the US military is going to come in and do a Maduro on Khamenei and the rest of the Iranian government. They've even renamed a street after him! There are two reasons why Canks is threatening to use the military to go into Iran - he wants the glory of being the one to overthrow the mullahs, and he wants the oil. He's also clueless enough to not know that hitting Tehran isn't as easy as hitting Caracas, just based on geography. Caracas is on the coast of Venezuela. Tehran is in the middle of the country.

MarineCombatEngineer

(17,761 posts)
4. And if the Iran/Iraq war wasn't a lesson learned on Iranian resistance,
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 11:59 AM
Friday

then I don't know what else to say except that Iran won't be a pushover like Venezuela was, so far, and there will be a lot of wounded and dead US military and likely terrorist attacks inside the US from state sponsors.

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