Trump Announces Khamenei's Death, But Karosta Already Knew a Week Ago

While the world is still trying to figure out whether Iran's leader Khamenei is actually dead, fishing boat captains at Liepāja port have been talking about it as old news for a week. "Kalvītis from 'Jūrmala' told us that on Monday," says Jānis, captain of the ship "Kaija". "He heard it from his contacts in the Persian Gulf. Our fish swim there too, after all."

Trump announced on his "Truth Social" that "Khamenei, one of the most evil people in history, is dead," but then NBC said he might not be so sure after all. Such inconsistency wouldn't happen in Liepāja — here you're either dead or you're not, there's no third option. As Gundega from the market says: "If someone told me my husband was dead, I'd check whether he's still snoring on the couch."

Iran's news agency "Tasnim" calls it all "psychological warfare," but in Liepāja we know that real psychological warfare is when the tram is 5 minutes late and you don't know whether to run to the stop or stay home. The revolutionary leader is supposedly "resilient and determined," but our tram is more resilient — it's been running since 1899 and still isn't dead.

In Riga, of course, they'd only find out about such international intrigue from yesterday's newspapers, but in Liepāja we have our own channels. As Marija from the central market says: "My cousin works at the port, and everyone there knows everything faster than CNN." While politicians play guessing games, we're already planning how this will affect fish prices.