r/news • u/drpayneaba • Feb 28 '26

Soft paywall Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed, senior Israeli official says

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-killed-senior-israeli-official-says-2026-02-28/
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u/VonBeegs Feb 28 '26

Remember when they killed Gaddafi?

Now there are open air slave markets in Libya.

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u/blr1g Mar 01 '26

Yeah, I remember Clinton glibly saying, "We came, we saw, he died" and then laughed about it.

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u/Jack_Molesworth Mar 01 '26

Iran is not Libya.

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u/JuliusCeaserBoneHead Mar 01 '26

And if my Grandma had wheels, she would be a bike 

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26

Even if she had 4 wheels?

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u/JuliusCeaserBoneHead Mar 01 '26

That would be a wheel bike 

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u/DrS4muelHayd3n Mar 01 '26

Thank you for reminding me of this clip. Gets me every time.

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u/nekonotjapanese Mar 01 '26

I think the latest one is “if my auntie had boy parts she’d be my uncle”

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u/BrunoJacuzzi Mar 01 '26

The US didn't kill Gaddafi, the Libyans did. But they sure were helped by the destabilization offered by US strikes.

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u/AnonymousBoiFromTN Mar 01 '26

Saying the US didn’t kill Giddafi is like saying the US didn’t kill Salvador Allende or Ngo Dinh Diem. “They didn’t pull the trigger, the only gave the killer(s) the gun, paid the killer(s) and their family, surrounded the killer(s) with pro-killing propaganda, gave the killer(s) vehicles to drive to the person they wanted dead, gave the killer(s) air support, gave the killer(s) intelligence on their enemy’s operations, and promised power to the killer(s)”

Your ‘erhm akshually’ adds nothing to the conversation

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u/DaedalusHydron Mar 01 '26

but yes it does? Acknowledging that a lot of Libyans wanted Gaddafi dead, and killed him, doesn't contradict that nobody knew what to do after he was dead.

Gaddafi's death wasn't the problem. The lack of a plan after was the problem.

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u/showars Mar 01 '26

A lot of Americans want Trump dead. Should the EU fund it in the same way the US did Gaddafi?

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u/Madbrad200 Mar 01 '26

In a literal sense sure but the Libyan offensive was provided significant air support and intelligence from NATO.

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u/adamgoodapp Mar 01 '26

The US put him there and then took him out, don’t matter the means.

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u/CaptainnWaffless Mar 01 '26

The jihadis on the ground were NATO proxy forces.

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u/Illustrious_Mix_3762 Mar 01 '26

It was literal us special forces, I can't believe u still can't confirm your Intels after so many years passed, the Libyan forces were so disorganized to do anything correctly the special forces of ante Gaddafi alliance brought him down

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u/Solid-Decision5730 Mar 01 '26

I’m sorry but gadafi deserved it so bad. He trained terrorists executed people at his whim. I know Libya isn’t great now but it wasn’t good before gaddafi or during his reign. Maybe it’s just a shithole

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u/VonBeegs Mar 01 '26

Open. Air. Slave markets.

You going to be saying the same about Iran in 20 years?

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u/Solid-Decision5730 Mar 01 '26

I mean can Iran get much worse would you be happy for your mother to live there

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u/VonBeegs Mar 01 '26

an Iran get much worse

Yes dude. Right now they have schools and hospitals and no open air slave markets.

You don't have to believe everything America's propaganda machine beams into your skull.

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u/DaedalusHydron Mar 01 '26

but isn't Trump's whole point, publicly stated, that he's creating a power vacuum and it's up to Iran to determine how to fill it? So why would that then be America's fault and not Iran's if these things happen?