"Death to America," Death to Israel," said Mojtaba Khamenei

Iranian Leader Khamenei Issues Defiant Message Amid Ongoing Negotiations

The message comes amid a tense standoff between Iran and the United States, as negotiations continue for a possible diplomatic settlement of the war.

Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued a message on May 26 calling for greater unity across the Muslim world against the United States and Israel, saying that the chants “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” will become the rallying slogans of Muslims and “the oppressed of the world.”

Khamenei’s message was to mark Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage. In it, Khamenei described a historic struggle against U.S. and Israeli influence in the Middle East, repeatedly invoking the revolutionary slogan “Allahu Akbar” as the “weapon” that had enabled Iran and its allies to resist outside pressure.

He said Iran had succeeded in “making the Zionist regime helpless under its severe blows during the second imposed war” and in delivering “a harsh slap to aggressive America,” while thwarting efforts to force Tehran into submission.

The statement also praised what it called the “Resistance Front,” saying Iranian forces and allied fighters in Lebanon had secured “notable victories” against “the two terrorist armies, armed to the teeth by the American-Zionist side.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio similarly said Trump would not accept a “bad deal” with Iran and warned that Washington would pursue “another way” if diplomacy failed.

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Iranian War - High Risk for Trump

For Trump, Iranian war comes down to economic and political consequences

The regime in Tehran continues to defy Trump as the Supreme Leader declared on Thursday that the Islamic Republic will protect its "nuclear and missile capabilities" as a national asset, reports Associated Press.

A written statement attributed to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei was read by a state television anchor. It struck a defiant tone, insisting the only place Americans belong in the Persian Gulf is "at the bottom of its waters."

His remarks come as Iran's oil industry is being squeezed by a U.S. Navy blockade halting its oil tankers from getting out to sea. Brent Crude, which serves as the benchmark for oil pricing globally, also reached $126 a barrel on Thursday but had dropped to $108 on Friday.

The U.S. and Iran’s opposite stance regarding Iran’s nuclear capabilities along with the increased pressure on the world economy are factors for Trump to consider going forward.

Robert Maginnis is president of Maginnis Strategies, LLC. He says it's about the cost of oil.

"The politics of this are closing in on the Trump administration. They've got to finish this off sooner rather than later. They have to have the economy stimulated. They have to have energy prices down,” says Maginnis. “We only have a short period of time before we have to pull out because the Democrats are going to take advantage of Trump's vulnerability on Iran."

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Mojtaba Khamenei with serious injuries

Iran's new Supreme Leader reportedly needs plastic surgery after Israeli airstrikes left him severely disfigured

Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new Supreme Leader, has not appeared in public or released a single audio or video message since assuming power, and now a New York Times report explains why.

The 56-year-old ayatollah's face and lips were severely burned in the February 28 Israeli airstrikes that killed his father, and he reportedly requires plastic surgery and a prosthetic leg before he can show himself to his own people, let alone the world.

The injuries are not cosmetic inconveniences. One of Khamenei's legs has been operated on three times and is expected to be replaced with a prosthetic, the New York Post reported. He reportedly struggles to speak.

Four Iranian officials told the Times that Khamenei does not want to appear vulnerable or sound weak, so instead, he has vanished from view entirely.

That vanishing act has real consequences. U.S.-Iran peace talks have stalled, and the White House says the reason is simple: nobody in Tehran can speak with authority for a regime whose leader communicates through handwritten messages ferried by couriers.

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Ayatollah reported to be in Russia

Ayatollah Fled to Russia, IRGC Has Taken Control

A stunning new Newsmax Platinum Intelligence Brief pulls back the curtain on the real power structure inside Iran — and the implications could reshape the Middle East overnight.

Drawing on a senior Gulf-based source, the report reveals how Iran’s civilian leadership has been effectively sidelined.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is now driving nearly all major decisions — from military strategy to nuclear policy.

Even more alarming, the country’s top leadership is described as increasingly isolated and vulnerable, amid growing fears of deep foreign intelligence penetration.

Our source reveals that Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has been wounded and was evacuated to Russia. [Newsmax Platinum]

Mines in Strait of Hormuz

US Officials: Iran Laying Mines in Strait of Hormuz

Iran has begun laying naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the critical Persian Gulf channel that carries about 20% of the world's oil, according to U.S. officials, raising concerns about global shipping and energy supplies.

U.S. intelligence indicates Iran started deploying the mines Thursday using small boats after the U.S. military destroyed larger Iranian naval vessels capable of quickly laying mines in the narrow waterway, a U.S. official briefed on the intelligence said, according to The New York Times on Friday.

In his first public remarks since the war began, Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, said in a written statement Thursday (no one knows whether he's alive or dead) that "the lever of blocking the Strait of Hormuz must continue to be used."

U.S. officials said the latest mining effort is slower and less efficient than using larger vessels, but Iran appears to be attempting to lay mines faster than U.S. forces can clear them, in hopes of deterring ships from entering the strait.

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And Democrats are bitching and moaning that the price of gas has risen.

Dealing with Mojtaba Khamenei

Striking Iran's Leadership

U.S.-Israel Strike Targets Iranian Leadership Meeting During Succession Vote Count

In chess, the most devastating moves aren’t the ones that capture pieces—they’re the ones that strike precisely when your opponent reaches for the crown. This week, the United States and Israel executed a campaign of decapitation so brutally efficient that military historians will be studying it for generations.

What unfolded over four days was not merely an air campaign. It was the systematic dismantling of a regime that has chanted “Death to America” for forty-five years while the world urged us toward “strategic patience.”

How’s that patience working out? The Iranian navy—gone. The air force—destroyed. Radar defenses across the country—knocked out. President Trump confirmed the devastation bluntly: “Virtually everything has been knocked out.”

The opening salvo alone killed 49 of Iran’s most senior leaders, leaving the military fractured and leaderless in a matter of hours. The IDF struck a covert underground nuclear compound where scientists were actively working on weapons development. Fires raged at naval headquarters in Bandar Abbas. But none of this—remarkable as it is—was the most stunning part.

From Fox News:
“They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what’s left of the leadership was gathering to choose a new Supreme Leader,” reported Trey Yingst. Israeli sources believe they struck the meeting as votes were being tallied—a revelation that “speaks to the Israeli intelligence about this war.”

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Next Iranian Leader's life in jeopardy

Israel Vows to Kill Next Iranian Leader

Israel's defense minister warned that any leader appointed by Iran's ruling regime could become a "target for elimination" as Israel continues its military campaign against Tehran.

Defense Minister Israel Katz made the statement in a post on X, saying Israel is prepared to strike future Iranian leaders who continue the regime's hostility toward Israel and its allies.

"Every leader appointed by the Iranian terror regime to continue and lead the plan to destroy Israel, to threaten the United States and the free world and the countries of the region, and to suppress the Iranian people—will be an unequivocal target for elimination," Katz wrote early Wednesday.

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I guess Khamenei's son needs to be very careful.

Khamenei's son to be new Supreme Leader

Iran’s Assembly of Experts has reportedly chosen Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

He will be the country’s next Supreme Leader.

According to a March 3 report by Iran International, the clerical body made the decision under intense pressure from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The announcement follows the confirmed death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a coordinated US–Israeli military strike on Tehran on February 28, 2026 — a development that has plunged the Iranian system into a historic succession crisis.

Sources familiar with the decision told Iran International that Mojtaba’s election by the Assembly of Experts, a body of 88 senior clerics vested with the constitutional authority to choose the Supreme Leader, reflects the influence of the IRGC in shaping the post-Khamenei leadership transition.

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