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Ayatollah Khamenei’s niece arrested after she compares Iran’s supreme leader to Hitler

Ayatollah Khamenei’s niece arrested after she compares Iran’s supreme leader to Hitler, Mussolini

Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Farideh Moradkhani, the niece of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has compared her uncle to fascist dictators like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

"How long do we have to witness oppression by political autocrats in any part of this world? Isn't the experience of Hitler, Mussolini, Ceaușescu, Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Khomeini and his last one, Khamenei, enough?" Moradkhani said.

Moradkhani's comments came in the form of a video message posted to YouTube and…

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