Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is “wounded, isolated, and not responding to messages being relayed to him,” according to anonymous alleged U.S. and Israeli security officials speaking to mainstream media outlets this weekend.
The assessment was relayed by the Washington Post in an otherwise dour status report on Sunday, which portrayed Operation Epic Fury as boiling down to a vicious struggle for control over the Strait of Hormuz in which Iran supposedly holds most of the cards.
Even the dubious condition of Khamenei, who was hastily appointed two weeks ago to replace his slain father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made the situation worse for America and Israel in the Washington Post’s analysis, because his status as an incommunicado figurehead has allowed “surviving clerics and leaders of Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have consolidated their grip on the country.”
The Times of Israel (TOI) reported on Monday that U.S.
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