Iran: The Kleptocrats Who Betrayed the Revolution
February 15, 2026“The Supreme Leader has only one concern: annual profits. The rest, he doesn’t care about.” Created by a brief edict of Khomeini in 1989, two months before his death, to manage “ownerless” properties and redistribute them to the poor, Setad — “Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam” — has, under Ali Khamenei, become…
What Khomeini Told Me
June 22, 2025Khomeini was a gentle man. His gaze was always of indisputable kindness toward me—almost paternal, never intimidating. His face bore regular, harmonious, almost feminine features. I perceived a refined, elegant person, the opposite of obscurantism. In fact, he even smelled good, as if he had put on perfume. A mystic stood before me, a theologian…