Ali Khamenei grabbed power and held it, at bloody cost
LATE LAST year protests broke out in Tehran over the collapsing value of Iran’s currency, the rial. By early January they had spread to most of the country’s 31 provinces. Ali Khamenei, the country’s 86-year-old supreme leader, warned that “rioters must be put in their place”. Several days later, after that threat failed, Mr Khamenei … Read more