Is Iran's Supreme Leader Alive?
Simon Whistler · July 2, 2026 · 14 min video · Middle East
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When it comes to the war with Iran, there are some faces that just seem impossible to escape. Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, J.D. Vance, in the media on the US side, guys like Mohamed Golobov, Abbas Arakchi and Ahmed Fahidi on the Iranian side.
Throughout it all, though, one face has been always completely absent, that of Mashtaba Khomeini, the Supreme Leader. We do note that he was injured, to some extent, at the start of the war, which left rumours circulating that he was either incapacitated or just straight-up dead.
But that was back in March, when it was easy to write off missing Iranian officials as simply being too sensible to surface when the US or Israel could drop a missile on them.
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