US President Donald Trump again did not say directly on Friday when the war with Iran might end. In an interview with Fox News, he merely declared that he would know when he “feels it in his bones”. He also said of Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtab Khamenei, that he is injured but probably still alive in “some form”. TASR informs about it.
Mojtaba Khamenei since his election as the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic did not show in public. According to the media, he was injured in one of the first Israeli-American attacks, which also killed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the first day of the military intervention against Iran.
“I think he’s injured, but he’s probably still alive, at least in some form,” Trump said to Fox News. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier that Mojtaba Khamenei is wounded and probably disfigured.
The Republican president and Israeli officials justified the need to take military action against Iran by citing imminent threats to regional and global security, with Iran’s alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons as the main argument. Trump initially claimed the war could last four to six weeks, but recently expressed his belief that it is almost over.
Politico magazine reminds that the head of the White House has not yet committed to a specific date for ending the conflict. He told Fox News, that he doesn’t think it will last long. However, he also indicated that only he himself will know when the war will end. “When I feel it, when I feel it in my bones,” he declared.
The war in the Middle East, which continues into its 14th day, has killed hundreds of people, displaced hundreds of thousands of people and sent oil prices soaring. Iran responded to American and Israeli attacks with retaliatory strikes on neighboring states in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.
