{"id":74410,"date":"2026-03-02T13:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74410"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:04:36","slug":"ali-khamenei-kalshi-bet-stokes-controversy-ceo-says-platform-prevents-against-profiting-from-death-but-could-have-done-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74410","title":{"rendered":"Ali Khamenei Kalshi Bet Stokes Controversy \u2014 CEO Says Platform Prevents Against Profiting From &#8216;Death,&#8217; But Could Have Done Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Kalshi<\/strong> CEO <strong>Tarek Mansour<\/strong> defended on Sunday a bet tied to Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader<strong> Ali Khamenei,<\/strong> who was killed in the joint U.S-Israeli strikes.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bet Not Directly Tied To Death, Says Kalshi CEO<\/h2>\n<p>Mansour addressed the controversy on X after backlash over the &#8220;Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader?&#8221; prediction <a href=\"https:\/\/kalshi.com\/markets\/kxkhameneiout\/ali-khamenei-out\/kxkhameneiout-akha\">market<\/a>, where critics accused the platform of enabling bets on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/politics\/26\/02\/50953582\/irans-supreme-leader-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-killed-state-media-confirms\">person&#8217;s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don&#8217;t list markets directly tied to death,\u201d Mansour said. \u201cWhen there are markets where potential outcomes involve death, we design the rules to prevent people from profiting from death. That is what we did here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mansour defended the bet, arguing that leadership changes in Iran have a \u201cmajor impact\u201d on the world order, including economic, national security and commodity prices.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On Khamenei: <\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t list markets directly tied to death. When there are markets where potential outcomes involve death, we design &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/prediction-markets\/26\/03\/50955901\/ali-khamenei-kalshi-bet-stokes-controversy-ceo-says-platform-prevents-against-profitin?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Ali\" khamenei kalshi bet stokes controversy ceo says platform prevents against profiting from but could have done better>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour defended on Sunday a bet tied to Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the joint U.S-Israeli strikes. Bet Not Directly Tied To Death, Says Kalshi CEO Mansour addressed the controversy on X after backlash over the &#8220;Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader?&#8221; prediction market, where critics accused the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-74410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}