When lies wear robes, and tyrants write letters, truth must speak louder.
Khamenei’s regime doesn’t just rule by force — it rules by illusion. Carefully crafted narratives, choreographed media, and religious symbolism have been used to project wisdom where there is only control.
While the people suffer in silence, the regime speaks in slogans. While students are jailed, it writes letters to students abroad. While it crushes dissent, it quotes poetry. This is not leadership — it is performance.
"O my leader," they claim Mandela said. But what they don't show is the context, the political diplomacy, and the fact that Mandela never lived under Khamenei’s regime. Iranians did — and still suffer.
Using Mandela's name to validate dictatorship is not honour — it is theft.
Khamenei sent a letter to American university students protesting genocide. But at home, his prisons are full of young people who protested peacefully — who chanted, who danced, who painted.
You cannot preach justice abroad while silencing it at home. That is not solidarity — it is strategy.
Some now praise him as a man of strength and mystic wisdom — a “prophetic masculinity.” But what kind of prophecy lives in bunkers and speaks through snipers? What kind of masculinity needs layers of guards and layers of lies?
There is no beauty in brutality. No wisdom in repression.
Mandela. Gaza. The Prophet. Justice. Resistance. These words are no longer sacred in his mouth — they are marketing. His propaganda is not designed to enlighten. It is designed to distract.
The regime wants silence. And when silence doesn’t work, it wants confusion. But now the cracks are showing. The slogans are tired. The world is starting to see.
The mask is slipping. And behind it, the truth still burns.