Mideast live: Trump says he believes Iran's leader is still alive ...
- On Wednesday, Iran and Oman discussed a "phased framework" for a temporary navigational corridor in the Strait of Hormuz, though Tehran warned the waterway will remain closed unless the United States ends the war.
- Japan is pursuing alternative pipelines to bypass the Strait of Hormuz as energy security concerns mount, while QatarEnergy issued a second tender this week to export crude via ship-to-ship transfers outside the waterway.
- Shipping data shows five commodity vessels transited the Strait on Tuesday, well below the 10-day average of 15, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened Iran with "economic asphyxiation" to force capitulation.
- President Trump claimed all mines within international waters of the Strait have been removed or detonated, warning that any boat placing new mines would be destroyed by the United States.
- Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said on Tuesday he hoped his country and Iran would soon announce a temporary shipping corridor after weeks of negotiations between the nations.
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Trump doubts Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is dead: ‘If he is, they’re putting on a pretty good show’
Trump was responding to an article in The Atlantic, which cited an Iranian official saying, "I believe Mojtaba has either passed away or is brain-dead."
US President Donald Trump said Iran's supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not appeared in public since taking power after his father's assassination in February, is still alive, writes France 24. "I don't think he's died. He...
"The left side of his body was badly injured, but I don't think he's dead," said the US president.
“He was seriously injured. The left side of his body—the arm, the leg, the whole side—was seriously injured, but I don’t think he was dead,” said Donald Trump about Iran’s supreme leader. In an interview, the U.S. president assured that Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei survived Washington’s military offensive against Iran last February, but that the attack left him seriously injured on the left side of his body. Little space left Trump for skepticism …
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is alive, although he has serious injuries on the left side of his body as a result of the attacks carried out by the U.S. and Israel during the February offensive against the country.Continue reading....
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