{"id":596803,"date":"2026-08-26T18:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/596803\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:20:16","slug":"donald-trump-says-irans-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-is-wounded-not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/596803\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says Iran&#8217;s leader Mojtaba Khamenei is wounded, not dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> said on Wednesday he doesn&#8217;t think Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader is dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s dead. He was very seriously wounded. The left side of his body, the arm, the leg, the whole thing. He was very seriously wounded. But I don\u2019t think he\u2019s dead,&#8221; Trump said on the Glenn Beck program.<\/p>\n<p>The Jerusalem Post has reported several times that Mojtaba Khamenei was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-892624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">not killed<\/a> in Operation Roaring Lion, but was likely seriously injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Trump has also said that he believes that Khamenei is &#8220;more rational&#8221; than his father and predecessor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s pretty badly injured. So there\u2019s a certain bravery there,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-898629\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump said in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Khamenei has not been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-905032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">seen in public<\/a> since he became Iran&#8217;s supreme leader.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he doesn&#8217;t think Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader is dead. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,85,87,79845,55,46,159370,43],"class_list":["post-596803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-donald-trump","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-islamic-regime","tag-islamic-republic","tag-israel","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}