June 26, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave his first nation address, because the 12 -day war with Israel ended the ceasefire that US President Donald Trump and Emir Katar at the beginning of this week.
Khamenei, in a pre -recorded video message, has played news about the damage to the country’s nuclear program by American strikes and announced victory over Israel and the United States.
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“The Republic of Islam has slapped America in the face,” Khamenei said, 86. He said the US strikes into Iranian nuclear facilities did not do “nothing important” and that the United States merely hit Israel from “completely destruction”.
Khamenei is reportedly hiding almost two weeks after the Israeli strike on Earth 13. June. Israel also eliminated Iranian higher military leadership and some scientists during the strokes. The Islamic Republic was a retaliation of missile blows to Israel.
The US said on Sunday that the military “smoothed” main nuclear spots of Iran using 14 bombs, more than twenty Tomahawk missiles and more than 125 military aircraft. Iran attacked the American air base in the neighboring Qatar.
Iranian officials claimed that the attacks were left by 627 people of the dead and nearly 5,000 injured. Iranian retaliation focused on parts of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and, according to reports, left a trail of damaged buildings and at least 14 people dead.
On Tuesday, however, Israel and Iran confirmed the ceasefire, hours after President Trump announced the immediate ceasefire between two nations on the social truth.
Where is Khamenei?
On Thursday, the aging Iranian leader Khamenei was lined with Iranian flag and portrait of his predecessor and founder of the Republic of Islam, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Khamenei spoke when looking into the camera. But it was not clear when the video was recorded.
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According to Reuters, which is fed by five resources with direct knowledge of succession planning, Khamenei is hidden with his family and is protected by the elite unit of Vali-YE AMR revolutionary guards.
While he is reportedly still informed of internal matters, a special three-member committee, which Khamenei himself-hee-echoed two years ago, is hews the effort to identify his successor, Reuters said.
In the case of Khamenei’s death, he focuses on the ruling establishment to quickly announce a new leader that will maintain national stability.
Khamenei has the last word
As the highest leader, Khamenei has the last word about all the main state affairs. As commander of the Armed Forces Commander, it would be expected to approve any military decision, including an attack on the US base or a ceasefire agreement with Israel.
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah have suggested that Khamenei was vulnerable and not immune to their strokes.
In an interview with the New York Times 25, Mehdi Fazaeli, head of Khamenei’s archival office, was asked for the well -being of the highest leader.
“People are very worried about the highest leader,” the host said. Without a direct answer, Fazaeli said, “We should all pray.” He added that he received a number of questions from officials and the audience sent a flood of messages who were asked the same question. The interview was carried out before the TV address of Khamenei 26 June
Fazaeli claimed that people who are responsible for the protection of the Supreme Leader are doing their work well and adding: “God willing, our people can celebrate victory next to their leader, willing to God.”
Previously, officials said Khamenei was hiding in a safe underground bunker and avoiding all electronic communication to avoid assassination attempts.
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During the protest against the American and anti-Israeli protest last week, before the ceasefire, women were seen in the hands of portraits of Khamenei. The newspapers in Iran expressed concern about Khamenei’s stay. “His daily absence caused us all who love him,” Mohsen Khalifeh, editor Khaneman, daily newspaper.
Khamenei’s successor?
The three -member panel of the supreme spiritual body in Iran, which was appointed Khamenei two years ago to identify his compensation, according to Reuters accelerated his planning.
According to the New York Times, Khamenei also chose compensation in his chain of military orders in case they were killed in Israel’s strokes.
A report that quoted three Iranian officials who are familiar with Khamenei’s emergency war plans said that the highest leader “usually talks to his commanders through a trusted assistant and suspends electronic communication to make it difficult.”
“It would be good to be careful, despite the fragile ceasefire that US President Donald Trump and Emir of Qatar mediated. Although President Trump allegedly told Israel to kill Iranian Supreme Leader, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not rule it,” Kasra wrote, special correspondent, BBC Persian.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday that his country’s forces would kill Khamenei if it were possible during the recent 12 -day war fighting between the two nations.
“Difficult to estimate”
“I estimate that if Khamenei was on our monuments, we would pull him out,” Katz said in an interview with Israeli public television. But Khamenei understood it, went underground to very large depths and interrupted contacts with the commanders who replaced the commanders who were excluded, so it was not realistic in the end, ”Katz quoted.
The Islamic Republic slapped America into the face.
Sanctions crippled the Iranian economy and reduced the highest oil exporter to the bad and fighting shadow of their former self, said the BBC report. Netanyahu and Trump both suggested that Khamenei’s life could be in danger during the Aviation War during the Aviation War, because the regime change could be the result of the war that ended on Tuesday.
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“It is difficult to estimate how long the Iranian regime can survive under such a significant tension, but it looks like the beginning of the end,” said Professor Lina Khatib, a hosting scholar at the University of Harvard.
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