Trump declared that Iran's new supreme leader is alive, but wounded
“He is alive in some form, you understand,” said the US president.
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President Donald Trump said that, in his opinion, Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, whose father — former supreme leader Ali Khamenei — was killed on the first day of the war, is alive, but "wounded".
Iranians have not seen Khamenei since his election by the spiritual assembly on Sunday, and his first comments on Thursday were read by a TV presenter.
Specifically, one Iranian official told Reuters that the newly appointed supreme leader received minor injuries but continues to perform his duties after state television described him as wounded in the war.
“I think he is probably alive. I think he is wounded, but most likely he is alive in some form, you understand,” said Donald Trump in an interview on Fox News’s The Brian Kilmeade Show.
Reuters recalled that in his first statements, Mojtaba Khamenei promised to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed and called on neighboring countries to close American bases on their territory, otherwise Iran might target them.
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