📸 Crying over the coffin of a man who ... He himself, on 14 Khordad 1368, in the extraordinary session of the Assembly of Experts for choosing Ruhollah Khomeini’s successor, had said: “One truly must weep blood for the Islamic society that even the possibility of someone like me as its leader is raised.” He was president for 8 years, and then for about 37 years he ruled Iran as “absolute velayat of the jurist.” The word “enemy” was one of his favorite terms in his speeches. His record of rule was accompanied by numerous instances of the violent suppression of protests, mass executions, restrictions on freedom of expression, suppression of religious and ethnic freedoms, and the application of gender-based discrimination. During his rule, millions of Iranians emigrated from their country. During his leadership, per capita gross domestic product fell, the average annual inflation rate was more than 24 percent, and the average prices of goods and services increased by more than 3,000 times. Now supporters of the Islamic Republic are weeping over the coffin of Ali Khamenei, who spent billions of dollars from this country on a nuclear program and the “Shiite Crescent” in Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen, so that at the end of his term he could say: “There will be no war; we will not negotiate.”