A day before the Nobel Prizes were to be awarded, the University of Oslo has awarded Iran's "supreme leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the title of "Dictator of the Year," its own version of a Nobel Prize. Khameini was chosen from a list of eleven contenders, including North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe.
According to the University, Khameini got the prize for "displaying much more hostility to his own people and to foreign nations" than the others, and "for his great contribution to human suffering."