'Khamenei had self-deprecating humor. He apparently lost it as he became leader'

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Iranian-born journalist and author Maziar Bahari survived detention in the notorious Tehran Evin Prison in 2009. Now he talks to Haaretz about the time he met Khamenei in person and why Iranians won't accept a new pro-Western authoritarian regime

NEW YORK - The first person Maziar Bahari thought about when he heard that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in an American-Israeli strike was the man who tortured him.