This time around, the world is in trouble again, potentially on the precipice of not just war but nuclear war, because of Iran’s self-titled “Supreme Leader,” Ali Khamenei.
Here we go again.
One of the recurring problems in humanity is that periodically someone (or multiple someones) shows up determined to run all of humanity, or at least all of humanity as understood in their day.
A mere sampling of these names over the centuries conveys the problem. From Julius Caesar, (he the dictator of the Roman Empire BC — Before Christ!) and on to, eventually, Britains’s King George III to France’s Napoleon, to World War I Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II to Russia’s Lenin and Stalin to World War II Germany’s Hitler and on to Italy’s Mussolini, Japan’s General Tojo, China’s Mao and an assortment of various others sprinkled around the globe with names like Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), Kim Il-sung (North Korea), Fidel Castro (Cuba), Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chile), and oh so many more, humanity’s dictator problem never goes away.
The ideals of freedom and democracy championed so vigorously in the Western world and on occasion elsewhere have never yet eliminated the obsessive human urge to total power over others.
This time around, the world is in trouble again, potentially on the precipice of not just war but nuclear war, because of Iran’s self-titled “Supreme Leader,” Ali Khamenei.
Who is he?
Khamenei is described, as here at Fox, as “the modern day Hitler.” He runs Iran as a police state, his first target being the Iranian people themselves. (And to their credit, rebellion against their Supreme Leader stirs.) (RELATED: Exclusive: Anti-Regime Iranians Speak Out, Discuss Widespread Discontent With the Mullahs’ Rule)
And from his actions thus far, the description of the “Supreme Leader” seems apt. While Israel has made it its mission to target Iran’s nuclear program, Khameini has made it his business to do things like targeting an Israeli hospital with conventional bombs — this is but one step in his long-term goal of wiping Israel off the face of the earth.
