Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Indian Islamists are dog-whistling to Iran's Embassy in India to take 'action' against a stand-up comedian, Ankit Agnihotri, over jokes about Indian Muslims raising 'Har ghar se Ayatollah niklega' slogans after the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei. During a stand-up comedy act in early October 2026, Ankit Agnihotri cracked jokes over a section of Muslims declaring earlier that every house will produce a Khamenei, and raising "Har ghar se Khamenei niklega" slogans.  

When a Saudi Arabian leader is disrespected, or an Iranian leader is assassinated, it elicits a personal, religious outrage.

In the middle of the smoke and confusion, all eyes are on New Delhi. India, a developing powerhouse with deep, ancient civilizational ties to Iran as well as a powerful, modern strategic engagement with Israel and the United States, is currently walking the closest diplomatic tightrope of its modern history.

Mojtaba Ali Khamenei has been viewed as "a combination of aide-de-camp, confidant, gatekeeper and power broker," in Iran.

“From the lens of Indian politics, the dangerous, pre-planned and illegitimate attack of the US and Israel on Iran, leading to the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, could prove to be such a Black Swan event for the BJP,” Ghanshyam Tiwari wrote in the article titled, “West Asia crisis may just be the Black Swan Event hurts the BJP in India”.