At the height of Israel’s war against Iran, Kambiz Hosseini - an anti-establishment figure working for the Saudi-funded media outlet Iran International - told his followers that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would soon be killed.
On 19 June, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Khamenei’s death would mean the end of the Islamic Republic, Hosseini urged his followers to wait just a little longer, writing: “You have waited 46 years, 4 months, and 29 days; wait three more days.”
For three days, nothing happened. Then, on the fourth, everything changed.
Less than two hours after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel, Hosseini posted anxiously on X: “If Khamenei survives in these remaining hours, he will massacre the people! He will take revenge on everyone.”
And Khamenei survived.
