Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, is allegedly in a secure location, relying on a complex courier network for communication due to assassination threats.
Mojtaba Khamenei has been bunker-bound since the February 28 strikes that killed his father Ali Khamenei, communicating exclusively via couriers with multi-day response latency. The bottleneck is stalling Iran-US peace negotiations, with direct implications for energy markets and regional sanctions exposure.
Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since the start of the West Asia conflict
May 25, 2026
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What's the storyIran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is reportedly living under extreme security conditions at an undisclosed location.
The leader has not been seen or heard in public since the start of the West Asia conflict earlier this year.
CBS News, quoting U.S. officials, has reported that Mojtaba Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, is hiding in an…
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"Every piece of information he [the Ayatollah] receives is dated & there's a lot of latency to his responses."
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