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It is 9 o'clock a.m., Washington, D.C. time, which is 11 o'clock p.m. Singapore time.

And you are watching Lawfare Live.

It is an admittedly unusual time to do a Lawfare live, but it has been an admittedly unusual weekend.

I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, and I am here with Lawfare Public Service Fellow Ari Tabatabai,

joining from Singapore Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Public Service Fellow,

Troy Edwards. We are talking Iran. We are talking major military operations and we are talking what the heck is going on. So let us start Ari with the now confirmed death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamanai.

You know, a lot of people have declared themselves Middle East experts and experts on Iranian

politics on social media over the last 24 hours.

But we are here to talk to people who may actually concede that they don't know very much about Iran.

So who was Ali Khomeini and why is it a big deal that he is no longer among the living?

Yeah, well, good morning, Ben and everyone.

Yeah, so Ali Khomeini was the supreme leader of Iran until, I suppose, yesterday at some point.

And we now have confirmed that, you know, the administration and Israel have confirmed that he is

dead.

So he was essentially in power since 1989, which is when the last Supreme Leader of Iran

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