“I don’t think he’s dead. He was very badly injured. The left side of his body, arm, leg, everything. He was very badly injured. But I don’t think he’s dead,” D. Trump said in an interview with radio host Glenn Beck.
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 and Israeli offensive.
D. Trump, who has repeatedly declared victory against 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 will achieve 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 are now letting many ships through the strait. We are 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 will use it,” he said, adding that he had already “stopped it twice.”
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