https://freerepublic.com/tag/ciasays/ en-us Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:52:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4389336/posts US intelligence briefings cited by The New York Times on Friday indicate that Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, displays a far greater willingness to build nuclear weaponry than his father who preceded him. His father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who died in joint US-Israeli airstrikes during the opening phase of the war, had maintained a long-standing fatwa (religious decree) against weaponization. While American analysts previously maintained that Tehran sought the threshold capacity to assemble a device, many considered the former leader's religious reluctance genuine. The younger Khamenei has avoided explicit public calls for a nuclear arsenal, noted The New... Arutz Sheva https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4389336/posts#comment Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:52:37 GMT