Was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the Iranian Revolution, killed in a US-Israeli bombing attack on 28 Feb 2026?

[badrihippo@fosstodon.org]

@evan yes but his spirit remains

(Sorry. I should've probably voted "yes" but couldn't resist playing around with the "but" option)

[jalal@satori.cafe]

@evan tricky question
Ali Khameini was killed but he often gets confused with Khomeini (all Ayatollahs sound the same).

[spraoi@tooting.ch]

@evan didn't he die of natural causes in 1989?

[johnefrancis@cosocial.ca]

@evan no, but they're having a hard time finding him a roommate at the dorm for the conspiratorially deceased.

Elvis? No.
Any of the previous 6 popes? No.
JFK? No
Saddam Hussein? Definitely not.

Maybe Michael Jackson or one of the Area 51 aliens.

Whoever it is, Khameini will be working at Cinnabon like everyone else.

[datn@xoxo.zone]

@evan Khomeini died in 1989, but Ali Khamenei, whose name sounds similar to Westerners, was reported killed on Feb. 28.

[chigaze@mstdn.ca]

@evan Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died in 1989 and was succeeded by Ayatollah Ali Khomeini. Ali Khomeini has been confirmed by Iran as being killed during the February 28th airstrikes.

[ben@kwiecien.us]

@evan This is some kind of trick question

[virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca]

@evan I remember the difference by thinking that the later one had a different sound at the end "eye" as opposed to the original one "ee"

[log@mastodon.sdf.org]

@evan Yes, but if you want to be an *official* revisionist historian, you need a billionaire sponsor.

Iran should have done a few deepfake videos of Khamenei just to wind up Trump.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@ben is it?

[floppy@mastodon.me.uk]

@evan cheeky, trying to catch us out

[malte@radikal.social]

@evan No, but his successor Ali Hosseini Khamenei seems to have been.