In Iran, Mass Arrests, Executions, and Everyone Is Wondering: Where Is Supreme Leader Khamenei?

PJ Media ^ | 06/26/25 | Rick Moran

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Iran is in trouble, and the theocratic clique that has ruled the country for 46 years is worried.

Who is Israel going to target next? There's no protection for anyone in Iran. Politicians, scientists, bureaucrats, and military leaders are all looking over their shoulders or watching the sky anxiously, wondering if there's a bomb or a drone with their name on it.

Paranoia has gripped the Iranian elites. This has resulted in what Reuters describes as a "campaign of widespread arrests." There's also an "intensified street presence" as authorities attempt to head off any kind of mass protests, such as Iran has often seen.

The major question that's occupying the Iranian leadership is the location and health of 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Leader has not been seen for almost a week during the biggest foreign crisis the regime has faced.

The New York Times:

Mohsen Khalifeh, the editor in chief of Khaneman, a daily newspaper focused on real-estate development, said in an interview that Mr. Khamenei’s “days-long absence has made all of us who love him very worried.” Acknowledging a possibility that two weeks ago would have seemed unthinkable, Mr. Khalifeh added that if Mr. Khamenei were dead, his funeral procession would be “the most glorious and historic.”

As the supreme leader, Mr. Khamenei has the last word on all major state matters. As the commander in chief of the armed forces, he would be expected to approve any military decision as significant as the attack on the American base or the cease-fire deal with Israel.

The cease-fire agreement, requested by President Trump and mediated by the emir of Qatar, appears to have been brokered swiftly...

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Senior Iranian military commanders and government officials have been evasive about whether they have met or spoken with the Ayatollah Khamenei in recent days.

[nuconvert]

Unfortunately it sounds like he’s still alive

[Resolute Conservative]

Too bad not by seance.

[Ann Archy]

China? Russia??? Dead?? CAVE??

[xp38]

Mr. Khalifeh added that if Mr. Khamenei were dead, his funeral procession would be “the most glorious and historic.”

Only if he falls out of his coffin like Khomenei did. :)

[Red Badger]

....or his autopen is................

[Spok]

If they admitted the Ayatollah is dead, the world would want to know by whom. What would be worse politically: the IRGC or Mossad?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Unfortunately it sounds like he’s still alive

Even if Khamenei were dead, does it really matter? The Ayatollah is like the Pope in the RC Church.

He will be replaced by someone younger and even more or just as apocalyptic as he is.

[adorno]

The major question that's occupying the Iranian leadership is the location and health of 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Leader has not been seen for almost a week during the biggest foreign crisis the regime has faced.

The Israelis know where he is, and they also know where his family is.

Not targeting the Ayatollah does not mean that his whereabouts are unknown.

Khamenei is powerless and his subordinates are the ones that can get things done, so targeting them is a lot more important, and that's been done. That Ayatollah does have informants on his inner circle, and he can be taken out any time Israel wishes. But he's mostly irrelevant.

[Vigilanteman]

Only if he falls out of his coffin like Khomenei did. :)

I remember that. I also remember that a half dozen or so of his fanatics were trampled to death in a stampede that resulted.

[johniegrad]

But he's mostly irrelevant

He is symbolically very important. There have been a total of two of them in their history.

[glennaro]

In Iran, Mass Arrests, Executions, and Everyone Is Wondering: Where Is Supreme Leader Khamenei

So it's just a regular anyday in Baghdad ...

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RE: That Ayatollah does have informants on his inner circle

Aren’t these “informants” already outed and executed?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: So it’s just a regular anyday in Baghdad ...

Baghdad is not in Iran ( not yet at least ).

[adorno]

He is symbolically very important.

Symbolically. IOW, not relevant. Inconsequential. Just like the symbolic puppet Biden.

[glennaro]

Oops! Thinking one thing ... expressing another. It’s either my age or that I’m still on my first cup out here this morning ... These are my lame excuses, and I’m sticking with them! Cheers! ... and many thanks for the assist!

[adorno]

Aren’t these “informants” already outed and executed?

Good informants aren't noticed. Good spies don't get caught.

Those spies who got all the intelligence for 15 years about the uranium enrichment plants under those Iranian mountains, did so without being noticed as spies.

[BipolarBob]

The Ayatollah imagined himself the Kwisatz Haderach but instead in real life he was just Humpty Dumpty.

[piasa]

Iran just put a video up of him last night

[piasa]

They could put him in the same nursing home as Biden.