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Mojtaba Khamenei ‘isolated and not responding to messages’ — report
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A schoolgirl holds up a poster of Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei during an anti-US and Israel demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, on March 12, 2026. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is “wounded, isolated and not responding to messages being relayed to him,” American and Israeli security officials tell The Washington Post.
According to Israeli officials, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and some clerics have tightened their control over Iran.
The Axios news site reported Saturday that the US Central Intelligence Agency, Israel’s Mossad and other intelligence bodies are working to detect traces of Khamenei as he remains unseen since being declared the new supreme leader following the assassination of his father.
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