Ali Khamenei Quotes
No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.
Khamenei, Ali. "Speech to the People of Isfahan." Khamenei.ir, 30 Oct. 2001.
When accused of being a baby killer for her views on abortion:
This quotation illustrates a great problem with treaties in international law. Here an opponent of the Egyptian regime and one who disapproves of the regime before it, wants to repudiate the treaties that had been signed by previous Egyptian governments. So when there is a regime change, can a new regime repudiate earlier treaties? International law says no, but if a new government refuses to follow its obligations, then it is left to the other treaty partners to put pressure on them--breaking diplomatic relations, trade sanctions, even war. For example, President Thomas Jefferson made a treaty with the French Dictator Napoleon and bought the Louisiana Territory which includes a number of current American states. If a new French government abrogated the treaty of the dictator on the grounds that it did not represent the will of the French people and tried to take back their land, war could ensue. Nations very rarely repudiate treaties for if they did, who would sign any new ones?
After coming to power in a coup, he had been in office for 22 years, and had been elected in less than "fres and fair" elections. As in many dictatorial nations, the ruler so contols the media and surpresses significant opposition so that he can obtain the "ligitimacy" of having been elected. However in 2016, despit his control of the entire system, public opinion was so much against him, that even with the various devices and artifices to control; the election, he lost. His repose was to claim that the election was fraudulent and tained and pointed to evidence of such. However the actions he claimed tainted the elections were all done by his minions tryiing to rig the election in his favor.
Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei is a Twelver Shia Marja' and the second and current supreme leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously President of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei is the longest serving head of state in the Middle East, as well as the second-longest serving Iranian leader of the last century, after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
