Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is being mocked mercilessly over a slew of bizarre social media posts that resurfaced as the Israel-Iran war broke out — including his musings about treating a woman right and even being “naughty&playful” as a school kid.
The odd posts date back at least a decade and are in stark contrast to the anti-Israel and war rhetoric that now fills the social media feed of the 86-year-old leader and most senior cleric in the extremist Islamic Republic.
In one from 2013, Khamenei recalled his awkward school days.
“I went 2school w/a cloak since1st days;it was uncomfortable 2wear it in front f other kids, but I tried 2make up 4it by being naughty&playful,” he wrote.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is being mocked over bizarre social media posts that resurfaced as the Israel-Iran war broke out. APSocial media users were quick to fire back, with one X user replying: “U have nothing 2 B ashamed of. You’re just as naughty and playful as ever.”
“Born to be playboi carti, forced to be ayatollah,” another chimed in.
Others seized on another 2013 post in which the supreme leader offered up love advice.
“U can’t leave all tasks 2ur #wife&then criticize her.Even if she’s a scientist/politician,yet when interacting within family,she’s a #flower,” he wrote in the Sep. 3, 2013 post.
Khamenei used the hashtags “books” and “avidreader” when talking about literature. X/@khamenei_ir
One user sarcastically responded, “So true king” to his post about women. X/@khamenei_ir“Man has a responsibility to understand #woman’s needs and feelings and must not be neglectful toward her #emotional state,” he said in a seperate post just days later.
One user fired back sarcastically, “So true king.”
A picture of another tweet from Khamenei.
“When Wifeguyatollah Khamenei discloses the strategies that have sustained his marriage for over 60 years, I sit my black ass down and listen,” another chimed in.
In March 2014, Khamenei tweeted: “It’s like u go 2a shop, when you come out, ur money’s gone but you’ve bought things. What’s important’s what u purchased is worth the fortune.”
“Underratedly top 10 poster of all time,” one person quipped.
More recently, the supreme leader – who has been in power for more than three decades – shared a photo of him watering a garden, writing: “Planting a tree is absolutely a religious, revolutionary act.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s old tweets resurfaced. KHAMENEI.IR/AFP via Getty ImagesOne user quickly fired back: “Someone please take power away from him and fulfil his destiny of being a sorrowing Sufi poet.”
The spate of decade-old posts — first reported by Mediaite — emerged as the defiant leader vowed “the Iranian nation is not one to surrender” as its war with archenemy, Israel, raged on.
He threatened, too, that if the US got involved in the conflict it would bring “irreparable damage to them.”
Israel, in response, branded him “the modern Hitler” who “should no longer continue to exist.”
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was mocked by social media users over his older tweets.
“A dictator like Khamenei, who heads a country like Iran and has made the destruction of the State of Israel his declared goal, this horrific goal of destroying Israel, cannot be allowed to continue or materialize,” Israel’s defense minister Israel Katz declared.
“The IDF has been instructed and knows that to achieve all the objectives, without question this man should no longer continue to exist.”
