US President Donald Trump claimed Iran's Supreme Leader is near collapse following extensive American airstrikes, though officials offered no proof.
WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump asserted Monday that Iran’s Supreme Leader,Mojtaba Khamenei,is “90% gone” in the wake of an extensive, multi-wave American air and missile campaign, delivering an uncorroborated assessment of the cleric’s physical condition as the military confrontation between Washington and Tehran escalates to unprecedented thresholds.
The remarks,delivered as United States Central Command (CENTCOM) prosecutes high-intensity combat sorties against command nodes and missile infrastructure across the Islamic Republic,represent the most direct claim by an American commander-in-chief regarding the targeted vulnerability of Iran’s clerical and military apex.
However,the assertion immediately confronted a profound intelligence vacuum.Independent international monitors,commercial satellite analysis firms, and allied foreign intelligence agencies have offered no independent verification of the claim.In Tehran, state media networks maintained strict operational silence regarding the supreme leader’s physical condition and precise geographic coordinates, instead broadcasting continuous rotations of nationalist programming, martial hymns, and standardized diplomatic denunciations of Western aggression.