Iran's Supreme Leader and God

Noted and recorded:

"Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cannot be removed from his post because his legitimacy comes from God, an official close to Iran's most powerful figure was reported Friday as saying.

"Khamenei, whose public persona is usually above politics, stoked controversy in Iran when he endorsed the disputed victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June's presidential elections, which plunged Iran into its deepest internal crisis since the Islamic revolution of 1979...."
(Reuters)

"It can't happen here?"

Given the assumptions of post-Enlightenment Euro-American culture, it's unlikely that anybody's going to try justifying weird and destructive decisions by saying, "God says so."

We've got our own slogans, like "national security" and "diversity."

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In the news:

• "Iran's Supreme Leader cannot be removed"
  Reuters (November 13, 2009)