the UK Times Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, “is incapacitated and is receiving medical treatment in the holy city of Qom,” reports said on Monday.
Times report It was based on “a diplomatic memorandum believed to be based on American and Israeli intelligence and shared with Gulf allies.”
The memorandum said Khamenei is suffering from a “serious condition” and is “unable to participate in any decision-making by the regime.”
Qom is a provincial capital and one of the largest cities in Iran, located about 85 miles south of Tehran. This city is historical and religious Importance Belonging to the Shia branch of Islam and claiming to be the largest Shia madrassa (religious school) in Iran. Qom was the scene of the surrender of Iranian forces to the Islamic Revolution in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s first supreme leader.
America-Israel attack on Qom air strikes At least five people were reportedly killed on Monday. According to local officials, the target of the attack was a “residential building”. Diplomatic memorandum seen by Times Apparently it was not made clear where Khamenei was receiving treatment in the city of Qom.
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is the third supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who has been hastily removed from office. installed Succeeding his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, into office on 9 March destroyed In the early hours of Operation Epic Fury on 28 February.
Diplomatic memorandum seen by Times Said that the Iranian regime is “laying down the necessary groundwork to build a large mausoleum in Qom” for Ali Khamenei and possibly other members of his family killed in the airstrike. Previous reports from Iranian state media said Khamenei’s remains would be buried at a Shia shrine in Mashhad, where he was born, and a public ceremony would be held in the capital, Tehran.
President Donald Trump described the elder Khamenei as “one of the worst people in history” and said his son’s resume did not suggest he would be much of an improvement. Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly played a key role in the deadly repression of the January uprising in Iran – during which the regime brutally murdered thousands, and possibly tens of thousands, of its own people in order to remain in power.
Ever since he was named, rumors have been swirling that the new supreme leader has been incapacitated or dead, as his father died of injuries sustained in an airstrike. He has yet to make a public appearance or issue any confirmed statement – it’s all his announcements There are written documents of uncertain origin read on camera by others.
Khamenei also did not attend the ceremony in which he was formally declared “Supreme Leader” and his subjects swore allegiance to him. The regime began to make do with posters and portraits of him, and he became derisively known as the “Cardboard Ayatollah”, although photographs of Iranian authorities installing actual cardboard cutouts of him turned out to be fakes.
Most of the statements attributed to Khamenei threatened retaliation against the United States and Israel. For example, on April 1, he reportedly swore off Iran’s continued support for terrorism throughout the Middle East.
