Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has not made a public appearance for almost a week, which has generated concern and various questions from authorities and the population itself about their whereabouts and health amid the country’s largest recent crisis.
This Thursday (26), days after his last statement via social networks on the 22nd, Khamenei returned to speak through the Iranian state agency, but without giving details of his current situation.
“Despite all this noise and all these allegations, the Zionist regime almost collapsed and was crushed by the blows of the Islamic Republic,” he told comments to the news agency Irnalinked to the regime. Despite the attempt to declare victory, Israeli and Americans attacks from recent weeks signaled that their internal (Iran) and regional strength has been strongly hit.
Iranian television programs have received a flood of questions about the country’s highest authority, but receive only discrete answers from the interviewed authorities.
In a recent case after the US attacks, Khamenei’s head office head, Mehdi Fazaeli, replied that people should “pray” by the Supreme Leader, who is being protected by people responsible for their security.
According to the few information released by his regime, Khamenei has been housed in a bunker since the beginning of Israel’s attacks on Iranian soil and does not use electronic communication to avoid murder attempts, as with Hezbollah last year, in the case of “explosive pagers.” The group is one of Tehran’s terrorist arms.
According to The new York Timesthe absence of Khamenei has bothered all sectors of Iranian society, from politicians to the general public, because it is not known to what extent he himself continues to transmit orders to military decisions against countries considered enemies and whether he is following the national situation daily.
This absence has caused a growing lack of confidence within the country itself in the midst of the strongest crisis that has reached Tehran in recent years.
