Insult Hurled at Khamenei on his own Website

The official site of the supreme leader of the Islamic republic of Iran posted a comment that calls him “an ass.” Ayatollah Khamenei and his office have two official websites: leader.ir, which serves as the base for information dissemination on Khamenei by the leader’s office.  The other site Khamenei.ir belongs to the center for the preservation and publication of Khamenei’s works.

On February 12 the leader’s official site invited the public to send their comments on ayatollah Khamenei’s most important and most memorable sentence during the last Persian year that ended on March 20, 2012 by texting it to the site. According to the site, two thousand messages have been received so far by the office.

In the comments section of the site on the preservation of the leader’s works, a message by an anonymous person wrote, “All Iranian so-called clerics” were asses. He further wrote, “In my view his statement that we shall respond to the enemy at the same level at which he attacks us as usual demonstrates that he and all so-called Iranian clerics are asses. Shame on them.”

It appears that those responsible for comments on the leader’s website missed the contents of this particular message because they even responded to it and said that the sentence that the writer had quoted term was made this year (i.e., after March 20, 2012) and not last year, as the initial invitation had requested.

It should be noted that all organizations affiliated with the supreme leader’s office are under very strict security controls and supervision, yet this is the first time that a person succeeds in breaking through the various security layers and convey his anti-Khamenei message on the latter’s website.

The comment and the response were removed from the website soon after their initial posting, and there are no further details about it.

On the first day of Iran’s current calendar year (March 20, 2012) ayatollah Khamenei had said that while Iran was not after nuclear weapons, it would respond to an attack by the US or Israel at the same level at which it was attacked.

In his Iranian New Year message in Mashhad he quoted the Quran and said “The Quran promises us that if the enemy attacked us, it would certainly be defeated.”

The person who had written the insulting comment had responded to the call to present the most important and memorable sentence of ayatollah Khamenei during the last Iranian year that ended on March 20.