Welcome to the Ayatollah Khomeini book club

http://twitter.com/#!/Maysaloon/status/509275056762261504

Iran’s Supreme Leader is recovering from prostate surgery in Tehran and it looks like he’s taking up online book reviews as a hobby during his recovery:

http://twitter.com/#!/khamenei_ir/status/509274905536253953
http://twitter.com/#!/khamenei_ir/status/509277806857965568
http://twitter.com/#!/khamenei_ir/status/509280110562664448

Is this like Oprah’s book club and we can expect sales of “War and Peace” to skyrocket?

http://twitter.com/#!/LipskisGhost/status/509278331939069953

He probably likes 1984 because of its feel-good ending.

http://twitter.com/#!/chrisbell/status/509280540902817792

An anti-Stalin novel by a Jew? Maybe after his next surgery.

It looks like Khamenei has moved on to lighter reading:

http://twitter.com/#!/khamenei_ir/status/509284137014816768

And, yes, we know it’s Leo Tolstoy’s birthday today.

 

 

 

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/09/09/welcome-to-the-ayatollah-khamenei-book-club/