Gulf Insider
According to a Sunday CBS News report citing US officials, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is still in hiding in a secret location with extremely limited communication to the outside world. Driven underground by a pervasive fear within Tehran’s remaining leadership structure following relentless US and Israeli military strikes, the Supreme Leader is effectively isolated. This information is nothing ‘new’ – but even as talks with the US are now little by little reportedly proceeding – and as a ceasefire has been extended by weeks – the Ayatollah is clearly not taking any chances. The CIA and Mossad have openly acknowledged that are actively looking for his hideout. But the report seeks to provide an explanation as to why Tehran’s response to any specific updated draft peace deal often takes several days. CBS detailed how the isolation is to keep Western intelligence from mapping his coordinates, which involves only being reached via a slow, archaic network of physical couriers designed to conceal his location. The report further alleges that these heightened security measures have significantly disrupted communication lines within Iran’s government, complicating active negotiations with the Trump administration and at times dragging responses to US peace proposals to a grinding halt. But this is also to […]
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