By: Paul Petitte – The Christian Broadcasting Network; cbn.com
JERUSALEM, Israel – Before a missile strike killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, he oversaw oppression and funded terror groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah. Investigations reveal that he also controlled a financial empire, which is now headed by his son, Mojtaba, Iran’s new supreme leader.
Khamenei’s amassing of wealth contrasts sharply with the poverty many Iranians face today.
As U.S. and Israeli missiles hit Tehran, residents cheered. It was an ironic, yet telling, response of a population tired of oppression.
Dan Diker, director of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, told CBN News, “This entire massive, evolving demonstration by the Iranian people began as an economic grievance. And, you know, there’s is no water in Iran. There’s, the economy is in tatters. Their people are hungry. Inflation is in the hundreds of percent.”
Until his death, Khamenei was a billionaire who portrayed himself as a modest religious leader.
Diker noted, “The Iranian regime has always lived according to the principle of what’s called Taqiyya, which means deception or dissimulation.
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