Iran's Supreme Leader of 23 years, "divine" boss of the country's military, judiciary, and state broadcasting services, has joined hipster cupcake-pic site Instagram and posted four photos. Ayatollah Khamenei, or more realistically a member of his staff, appears to have created an account, khamenei_ir, where arty snapshots of …

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Monday 6th August 2012 10:08 GMT Anonymous Coward

Iran's very own Charlie Sheen

#beheading

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Monday 6th August 2012 11:58 GMT I ain't Spartacus

Things you're unlikely to see...

Picture of our first successful nuclear test!

OMG! Celebrating like nutters! Totes Emosh! PARTY PARTY PARTY!

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Monday 6th August 2012 12:52 GMT TeeCee

I give it about 2 days......

......before the account's pwned and full of photoshopped pics of him shagging donkeys.

That'll be followed by the world's intelligence agencies denying responsibility en masse.

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1. Monday 6th August 2012 15:32 GMT Mike Moyle
  
  Re: I give it about 2 days......
  
  Where's anonymous when they could actually be useful...?
  
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  1. Monday 6th August 2012 17:56 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Re: Re: I give it about 2 days......
    
    Probably in their basements popping their Zits.
    
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Monday 6th August 2012 18:32 GMT Paul Johnston

Great!

We can employ all the old "Kremlinologists" to see who is in and who is out by the relative position of the people in the photos.

Just wait until people start getting photoshopped out a-la Nikolai Yezhov!

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Tuesday 7th August 2012 04:46 GMT Morrie Wyatt

The Paradox of Modern Iran

"Paradox" HA!. "Oxymoron" is closer to the mark.

Religion and Government should never be mixed together.

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