This could be an interesting next few months. Although I'm sure he has hand-picked his successor there will be lots of power struggles going on and maybe some more rational people will come to the forefront.
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Three days ago, Iran?s dictator, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was rushed to the vast medical facility traditionally known as ?Vanak? hospital (it now has an Arabic name that means ?the 12th Imam Hospital?), a 1,200-room facility that saves half of its beds for the leadership.
Khamenei is known to be suffering from cancer, and taking considerable quantities of an opium-based pain killer. He has lost more than 17 pounds in the past ten months, and was told last spring that he was unlikely to see another New Year (In the Iranian calendar, the New Year begins at the end of March).