Posted on 06/16/2025 11:07:01 AM PDT by dennisw
But Tehran's 86-year-old supreme leader will still be fearing assassination, hiding out in 'as secure a location as they can manage' as Israel continues to target high ranking officials with deadly precision strikes across the country, onlookers believe.
Sources within Iran told London-based Persian-language outlet Iran International that Khamenei was moved to an underground bunker in Lavizan, in northeastern Tehran, in the hours after Israel began its attacks on the capital at the end of last week.
He is believed to be holed up with his family, including his son, Mojtaba - who has been pegged as a potential successor to the ageing supreme leader.
Israel has already taken out top ranking officials including the chief of staff of the Iranian military and the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Chiefs (IRGC) since Friday.
A strike killing Khamenei would be deeply controversial and create untold chaos within Iran's political system. It would also depend on Israeli intelligence being able to locate the supreme leader - and the air force to deliver the crucial blow.
'Operation Rising Lion', believed to have been years in the making, has seen Israel cripple entrenched nuclear facilities. But the Israeli Air Force (IAF) lacks the huge bunker busters to needed to destroy Iran's most elusive sites deep underground.
Khamenei was last pictured in a televised address from an undisclosed location on Friday, June 13, standing between Iran's flag and a portrait of former supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini, who led the country through revolution in 1979.
'Given the current Israeli threat, the Israeli defence minister saying Tehran will burn if you attack our cities, Netanyahu's threat of regime change, the clinical precision attacks on the top generals [on Friday], I think it is unlikely Khamenei will risk coming out,' Mr Joshi told the programme.
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“When danger reared it’s ugly head. he turned his tail and then he fled.”
The Ballad of Sir Robin
Supreme Leader
Lolololololol
Ali Khamenei and his Shiite Gypsy family. Traveling around from town to town. From bunker to bunker. Lest the IDF waste them. I thought these bs artists welcomed martyrdom. They claim not to fear death, yet the liars take extreme measures to hole up where IDF/IAF bombs and missiles cannot reach them.
Free Iran!
No ayatollahs, no hijabs, lots of free Persian Orthodox Christian churches!
There are more Orthodox Christian Persian Saints than Orthodox Christian American Saints!
Bunkers in Iran are only for the top leaders.
They deliberately did not build bunkers for the population, as Israel did.
The camel is dressed as a woman, just to be clear. The ayatollah and his son are dressed in one of the two man horse costumes. The camel is just there in case they get horny.
Bomb every rat hole that looks remotely habitable.
Flush him out and then kill him and his entire family.
Every last one of them.
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Iran was a prospering and modern country up until 1979 when the sheep molesters took over. They moved backward a couple centuries. The population is probably ready to come back to the present.
So the Iranians don’t believe Allah can protect their ayatollah?
Khomeini....Khameini....Khameini.....Khomeini.....Let’s call the whole thing off!
He has to carry his enema bottle from bunker to bunker? He has chronic constipation eating too much goat meat.
He is the leader of the Shiite faction of Islam, and his replacement will be the same.
The best possible outcome is the Iranian people eradicate Khamenei and his lieutenants, and mount their heads on pikes.
He is holding up better than Xiden.
My bet is on Mullah regimes meeting their demise in 2025. Allah will not rescue the Mullah’s. 75% of Iranians are fed up with Sharia life.
That’s not saying much.
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