Trump claims Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei ‘90% gone’

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US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran’s top military commanders have been killed and claimed that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his successor, was “90% gone,” Anadolu reports.

Speaking in an interview with Fox News, Trump said Iran’s military capabilities had been severely degraded. “They have no navy.

They have no air force.

It’s all gone.

Their anti-aircraft is gone.

Their leaders have all been killed,” Trump said. “Their best leaders have been killed.

They’re gone.

Khomeini is gone,” he said, using the name of the late Iranian revolutionary leader who died in 1989, while apparently referring to Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of US-Israeli strikes on Iran in […]

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