Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei ‘spends the day sleeping and using drugs': Report
'How can a leader lead when he sleeps half the day and the other half is a wreck from drug use? Water, electricity, life!' the account Mossad Farsi wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
The post, originally written in Farsi and automatically translated, stopped short of naming Ayatollah Khamenei but was broadly seen as a reference to the 86-year-old Iranian supreme leader, reported Israeli news outlet ynetnews.
The account behind it, @MossadSpokesman, is verified and regularly addresses Farsi-speaking users with content critical of Iran's leadership, often delivering political messages aimed at the regime in Tehran, the Israeli-based news outlet mentioned.
The post on X has drawn over 1.9 lakh views, with its closing remarks seemingly referencing Iran's ongoing infrastructure and resource challenges, including widespread protests over water scarcity and power cuts.
While Israel has not formally confirmed ownership, the Mossad Farsi has emerged as a provocative digital presence, widely seen as an unofficial outlet for the intelligence agency's messaging aimed at Iranian audiences.
Mossad Farsi bio warns users to use VPN amid attacks on Iranian regime
The account bio reads, 'To everyone contacting us through private messages, for your own security, please ensure you are using a VPN.'
Over the past month, 'Mossad Farsi' has posted a series of barbed messages targeting Iran's leadership, including comments on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's health.
In one post, the account ridiculed the secrecy surrounding the newly appointed, unnamed commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya, a key military command within Iran's armed forces.
After the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that the commander's identity was being withheld for security reasons, the account claimed it already had the name and encouraged users to guess.
When someone responded with 'Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi,' the account wrote back: 'Contact us privately to receive your prize.'
The account's use of public taunts is an unusual departure from Mossad's typically covert and restrained communication style. Two intelligence experts told Israeli news outlet JFeed that the channel appears to be genuine.
'Some of the information it has shared could only have come from Mossad,' said Beny Sabti, a former IDF Persian-language officer and current Iran specialist at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies.
Accusations about Khamenei's drug use have surfaced in the past as well. Fox News quoted a 2022 remark by Iranian academic Nour Mohamed Omara, who claimed on a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated TV channel in Turkey, 'Many viewers do not know this, but Khamenei himself uses drugs.'
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