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Ayatollah Khamenei hides in his bunker as paranoia stalks Iran
W hen Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, addressed the nation in a video recording this week, he sat before a brown curtain of a sort that could be found in any number of homes in Iran. That was the point — which home it was is meant to be a closely guarded secret.
But both President Trump and Israel say they know where Khamenei is hiding. 'He is an easy target, but is safe there. We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now,' Trump said.
It would normally be a boast that would leave his intelligence agencies looking askance. Intelligence officers, by force of habit, do not like to disclose what they know.
Some years ago a confidant of Ayman al-Zawahiri, then the leader of al-Qaeda, spread a rumour that he had died.
