• Iran's Religious Leader Denies Living the Good Life

Ayatollah Ali Hoseyni Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader since 1989, was thought to be a religious man leading by example with an unadorned, pious life.Then a few weeks ago some former confidants of Khamenei began posting articles and videos presenting evidence that the Ayatollah's life may be a bit more profligate than he would like his followers to believe, with photos of his various villas contrasted in online slideshows with photos of poor Iranians suffering in a serious economic recession.