“I don’t think he’s dead. He was very seriously injured. The left side of his body, arm, leg, everything. He was very seriously injured. But I don’t think he’s dead,” D. Trump told radio host Glenn Beck in an interview.
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Officially, M. Khamenei continues to lead his country, which is under attack from the US and Israel. However, his absence from public view and the takeover of power by veteran Revolutionary Guard officials have fueled speculation that he is either dead or not fully in control of the situation.
His father was killed in a bombing at the beginning of the US-Israeli offensive.
D. Trump, who has repeatedly declared victory over Iran, despite still failing to forcibly open the Strait of Hormuz or compel Iran to surrender its nuclear materials, once again stated that military and economic pressure is working.
“These things are leading to a very big victory,” he said. “We’re going to have a big victory here very quickly.”
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D. Trump also claimed that the Strait of Hormuz, where the Iranian military has disrupted and largely blocked shipping, is actually completely open.
“You can really say, you know, that the strait is open. We’re letting a lot of ships through the strait now. We’re bringing them in. There are no more mines,” he said.
“We cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. That’s the bottom line. That’s 99.9 percent. We cannot allow them because they are crazy and they will use it,” he said, adding that he had already “stopped it twice.”
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