Iran‘s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is projected to be overthrown, with his odds spiking to 60% overnight, according to Polymarket.
“JUST IN: Iran’s Supreme Leader projected to be overthrown, as odds hit record 60% overnight,” the cryptocurrency-based prediction market announced in a post shared on its X account Friday (January 9) morning.
The post was shared amid widespread anti-government protests in Iran, which Khamenei claimed were started by “vandals” destroying public properties and acting on behalf of U.S. President Donald Trump, who had reported that peaceful protesters were being killed and claimed Washington could “come to their rescue.” The supreme leader warned that the government wouldn’t tolerate “mercenaries for foreigners” in a broadcast on national Iranian television via Reuters.
“The Islamic Republic came to power through the blood of hundreds of thousands of honourable people. It will not back down in the face of vandals,” Khamenei said.
The supreme leader’s comments followed an internet blackout in Iran amid the ongoing protests. NetBlocks, an internet watchdog, said the blackout and other forms of censorship were imposed by authorities in response to the turmoil.
Several videos of the protests have, however, been shared on social media by opposition groups and human rights monitors, which includes protesters calling for Khamenei to be overthrown, as well as the return of Mohammad Reze Shah Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last king. Pahlavi, who now lives in Virginia, is the heir to Iran’s last shah, who was overthrown during the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
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