Israel has told Iran’s new Supreme Leader that it “knows where he is” after Donald Trump said he might already be dead.
Mojtaba Khamenei was hurt in US-Israeli strikes and hasn’t been seen since the war started, which has led to a lot of crazy conjecture about his health.
Last Thursday, state TV read a statement that was said to be from the Iranian leader to put an end to rumors that he had been killed after his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed. But no one saw him.
Mr. Trump fanned the flames over the weekend by saying to NBC News, “I don’t know if he’s even alive.” So far, no one has been able to show him.
He said he had heard a “rumor” that he was dead. He went on to say, “I’m hearing he’s not alive, and if he is, he should do something extremely wise for his country, and that’s surrender…Some people assume he’s still alive but hurt terribly.
But on Sunday night, an Israeli security insider informed the Daily Mail straight out, “We know where he is.”
It comes as alleged Iranian sources have spread conspiracy theories that Vladimir Putin ordered Khamenei, 56, to be smuggled out of the country to Russia for treatment.
A security official from Israel told the Daily Mail in a very short and scary way, “We know where he is.” (Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, is shown in the picture.)
One tabloid claimed “regime insiders” saying in a strange way that a “secret operation” started last week and that the Supreme Leader is now recovering in a private hospital in Moscow.
Some people have spread false rumors that Benjamin Netanyahu died after a heart attack.
The Israeli security officer stated, “I don’t think you should believe everything Iran says.”
On the first day of the battle, US missiles murdered the Ayatollah. As the fight approaches its third week, rumors regarding where his son is are only getting worse.
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, told The New Arab in an interview that “The leader of the revolution is in good health and is fully managing the situation.”
Professor Anthony Glees, a specialist on security, remarked, “During times of war, the dark arts will be a major weapon of choice on all sides.”But the most important issue is that no one has seen Mojtaba, which makes me think that the regime might be in jeopardy.It would be so easy to show him alive and healthy, and it would be the strongest propaganda message of all that Israel and the US had not been able to chop off the snake’s head in the third week of the war.But I still haven’t seen any strong evidence that this government is about to fall apart.
Avner Vilan, a former high-ranking security official in Israel and a specialist on Iran, said, “Khamenei’s location and condition are a strategic asset for both sides.”Neither side would want to make information public, and both might want to give the wrong impression about where he is and how he is doing.They did soon accept that the Ayatollah was dead, but not the son.
Last Thursday, Iran’s new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, made a statement on state TV to put an end to rumors that he and his father had been slain.If Khamenei Jr. were already dead, it’s unlikely that Iran would choose him as their leader. They would have to accept that both Supreme Leaders were murdered in this fight, which would not show strength.
Even if Israel and the US think they had killed Khamenei, they would want to be completely sure before saying it in public.
It took Israel two weeks to say that Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif had been killed in August 2024.
Hamas only admitted he had been killed six months later, after he had survived many assassination attempts and was known as “The Cat with Nine Lives.”
In the same way, after the IDF murdered Yahya Swinar, the mastermind of the October 7 attacks, in Gaza in October 2024, they took his body for DNA testing before announcing his death, even though a picture of his lifeless body went viral.
On Sunday, Israel put up a rogues gallery of the 16 high-ranking Iranian officials they killed on the first day of the war.
It has the phrase “eliminated” written above the heads of the Ayatollah and his top military, intelligence, and defense officials.
Some of them are Mohammed Shirazai, the head of the Military Bureau; Jalali Pour Hossein, the head of the Espionage Directorate; Abd al-Rahim Mousavi, the chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Army; and Mohammad Fakhpour, the commander of the IRGC.
On Sunday, Mr. Netanyahu made fun of bogus news that he had died from a heart attack by video himself peacefully drinking coffee in Tel Aviv.
He told his fans, “They say I’m dead?” I really want a coffee.
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