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President Trump speculated at length Monday about the fate of new Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei, pointing out no one has seen him in public.
“A lot of people are saying that he’s badly disfigured. They’re saying that he lost his leg, one leg, and he’s been hurt very badly. Other people are saying he’s dead,” Trump told reporters in the White House East Room.
President Trump said during a press conference in the East Room on Monday that the US doesn’t know if newly appointed Iranian supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is alive. REUTERS
A woman holding up a poster of Mojtaba Khamenei during a rally in Tehran on March 13, 2026. APMojtaba Khamenei made his first statement Thursday since being named to replace his late father four days earlier, on March 8.
“We haven’t seen” him “at all,” Trump pointed out Monday before admitting that US officials don’t know “if he’s dead or not. Nobody’s seen him, which is unusual.”
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