The Iranian Khamenei has made the first public appearance since the start of the War of Israel
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Iranian supreme chief Ali Khamenei was seen in public for the first time since the start of the War of Israel against Iran on Saturday.
Khamenei had been isolated in a security bunker for the entire conflict, although President Donald Trump claimed to know his location at the time. Khamenei attended a mourning ceremony on the eve of Ashoura on Saturday, waving a large crowd but making no statements.
Trump said during the 12-day war with Israel that the United States knew the location of Khamenei, but would not kill him, “at least for the moment”.
Khamenei made his first public statement on June 26, shortly after a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. He declared in a pre-recorded statement that Tehran had delivered a “slap in the face of America” by hitting an American air base in Qatar, and warning against other attacks in the United States or in Israel on Iran.
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The supreme chief of Iran, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaks in a televised and pre-recorded message, after the cease-fire between Iran and Israel, in Tehran, Iran, on June 26, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader / Wana (Press Agency in Western Asia) / Handout via Reuters)
In reality, none of the Iranian missiles succeeded on the Air Base of Al-Budeid.
Despite the United States strike on three nuclear installations across Iran last month, experts say that the regime is still determined to develop nuclear weapons.
“Repair, reconstituting and reconstruction will be the Modus Operandi of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said Fox News Digital Behnam Ben Taleblu, principal director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Iran. “It simply depends on how they will do it? Although flirting with the international community? Will they become completely dark?”
“All this remains to be seen,” he added.
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Iranian regime spokesperson, Fatemeh Mohajerani, confirmed this week The fact that the Ford nuclear sites, Isfahan and Natanz were “seriously damaged” after the American and Israeli strikes of the Iranian nuclear program last month.
Questions remain on the extent of damage This has been incurred, as well as skepticism as to whether Iran has been able to keep uranium or centrifuges enriched with highly guarded sites before the strikes.
Although the Trump administration said last week that it had “erased” the three installations it struck and have rejected with fervor Reports suggesting that Iranian officials may have been able to transfer certain elements of the regime’s nuclear program, Israeli officials confirmed this week that they were continuing to monitor the situation closely.
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President Donald Trump is shown in the situation room alongside an image of the damage caused to the Ford-Fordow nuclear installation on June 21, 2025. (The White House; Maxar Technologies via Reuters)
Experts from the United States and Israel have said they thought Iran always assesses the extent of damage “Bunker Buster” bombsAnd that the diet will seek to recover and repair what it can – which means that it could look for time.
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“Without a doubt, the regime will always have a diplomatic strategy designed to rope to anyone, and to find as much time as possible for this government to do it,” said Ben Taleblu.
Fox News McFall Caitlin contributed to this report
