لندن گاردین خبر مرگ خامنه‌ای را کار شایعه سازان نئو محافظه کار در آمریکا میداند

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: yet to declare that reports of his death are exaggerated. Photograph: Reuters TV/Reuters

Ayatollah Khamenei dead? How rumours start

Only last week Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei was complaining of the spread of rumours in the wake of Iran's violently disputed presidential elections. But that was the last that has officially been heard from him.

Since then Khamenei himself has become the main subject of the Iranian rumour mill.

It seems to have all been started – or at least given credence – by the leading American neocon Michael Ledeen.