Ayatollah's residence destroyed in Tehran, but housing crisis continues in Liepāja

While world media anxiously reports on the destruction of Ayatollah Khamenei's residence in Tehran, local residents in Liepāja look at this news with envy. "At least he had a house to destroy," comments Jānis, a Karosta resident who has been looking for an apartment for the third month.

The "Beit-e Rahbari" complex was reportedly completely destroyed, but in Liepāja many apartments already look as if they've been bombed from the start. "In Riga you'd get a palace for that money, but here you can't even afford a basement," complains student Līga, who lives in a room smaller than the ayatollah's bathroom.

Iran's Foreign Minister confirmed in an NBC interview that Khamenei is alive, but the same cannot be said about Liepāja's tenants after paying their bills. "If the Americans want to talk to me, they know how to reach me," said Araghchi, but Liepāja's tenants don't even know how to reach their landlords because they all live in Riga.

Meanwhile, local Karosta residents are offering Khamenei to relocate to Liepāja — "Nobody will attack here because nobody even knows where this is," philosophically comments a pensioner at the Karosta market. Moreover, in the rainy autumn weather, even bombing would seem like a continuation of natural weather conditions.