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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei checked out of the hospital yesterday, Sept. 16 after undergoing prostate surgery. Since he entered the hospital Sept. 8, his personal website has live-blogged the entire event, uploading pictures and videos of visits from current and former political figures, Iranian artists and regional officials from Iraq and Lebanon. The most notable absence — excluding his family, who is hardly ever photographed — was former Reformist President Mohammad Khatami.
Given the sensitive nature of the issue, much of the news about it had come via social media, written by political and media figures themselves.
