Exclusive: Why Iran's new leader survived & how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
No one knew how Iran’s new supreme leader survived the 30 bombs dropped on his father’s compound. Until now.
The Telegraph’s foreign correspondent Akhtar Makoii has obtained exclusive audio from an IRGC meeting that explains how Mojtaba Khamenei escaped the deadly US-Israeli strikes that killed his father, wife, sister, and other relatives on the first day of the Iran war. It also sheds new light on why he was chosen as Ali Khamenei’s successor.
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