Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was injured in an assassination attempt during the first phase of the war. Mojtaba Khamenei survived. The Israeli website ‘Ynetnews’ writes it.
The Strait of Hormuz is open: but no US and Israeli ships
Trump threatens to expand attacks on Iran to new targets on the seventh day of the Gulf war. The US president writes this in Truth, announcing that today Tehran will be hit “very hard”.
“Iran is no longer the bully of the Middle East, it is instead the underdog of the Middle East and will be so for many decades, until it surrenders or, more likely, collapses completely,” he adds.
Meanwhile, the regime claims that the Strait of Hormuz is open and that all ships will be able to cross it, except those of the United States and Israel, which “will be targeted”.
Meanwhile, the victims of the IDF blitz in Lebanon to find the remains of aviator Ron Arad, missing since 1986, have risen to 41: among the dead there were also four children.
US intelligence: defeat of the Iranian regime not even with a large attack
Not even a large-scale attack would be enough to bring down the Iranian regime. This is the assessment contained in a confidential report by the US National Intelligence Council, revealed by the Washington Post thanks to the testimony of three well-informed sources.
The report was completed about a week before Israel and the United States attacked the Islamic Republic and examined various scenarios, from limited raids to a large-scale attack, but did not take into account hypotheses such as a ground attack. According to the document, the protocols to be adopted in the event of the killing of the Supreme Leader are capable of ensuring the survival of the regime, where it would be “unlikely” that the opposition will be able to take power. It is unclear whether Trump had seen the document before deciding to attack Iran.
Iran’s will
The meeting of the Iranian Council of Experts to elect the new Supreme Leader of the country will be held today. This was announced by council member and Ayatollah Hossein Mozaffari quoted by the Fars agency. «The representatives of the people in the Assembly of Experts are eagerly waiting for the conditions to be met and to decide to select a new leader and successor to the martyred Imam” Ali Khamenei and «we have the confident hope that, with the help of God», stated Mozaffari. The news is also relaunched by Ria Novosti.