All posts tagged "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei"

Iran’s new supreme leader issued his first message Thursday through Iranian state media and did not appear on camera or read the statement — a move that reveals he was wounded, a CNN correspondent said.

CNN international reporter Nick Paton Walsh signaled that Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, could be seriously injured as a result of the U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed his father and left several of his other family members dead.

"It's what we didn't hear and what we didn't see," Paton Walsh said. ...

The appointment of a new ayatollah shortly after the death of Ali Khamenei highlights a major shortcoming in Donald Trump's plot for Iranian regime change, an analyst wrote Tuesday.

Despite the president's team carrying out a series of strikes against the Middle Eastern country earlier this month, the only changes made so far, according to CNN analyst Stephen Collinson, are beneficial to Iran. Trump may have succeeded in removing the country's former head, but his replacement, Collinson believes, is far worse for the US and the current administration.

He wrote, "No one from the outside can know its true state after days of aerial pounding of government facilities and heavy loss of life....

President Donald Trump was confronted with a bizarre "threat" from an Iranian official during a question-and-answer session at the White House on Wednesday, where he met with African leaders.

Fox News's Peter Doocy paraphrased Mohammad-Javad Larijani, "a regime figure and adviser to Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei," who said on Iranian television, "Trump can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago, because while he's lying down, a micro-drone might target and strike him right in the navel."

According to Newsweek, Larijani "laughed as he made the remark...as part of a discussion about the country's military technology."...

TEHRAN — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that the West should drop its "bullying" stance against his country and insisted that sanctions imposed over its nuclear programme were having no more than a "psychological" effect.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday welcomed comments by US President Barack Obama damping down talk of war against Tehran over its controversial nuclear drive.