Iranian protesters wait on their country’s flags and posters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli rally in Tehran, June 24, 2025
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made his first public appearance since the start of the12-day war between Israel and Iran.
Stammer TV in Iran showed Khamenei waving and nodding to the chanting crowd, which rose to its feet as he entered and sat at a mosque next to his office and space in the capital, Tehran. There became as soon as no quick yarn on any public assertion made.
His absence at some level of the war quick the Iranian chief, who has last say on all train issues, became as soon as below heavy security. The 86-one year-venerable is believed to include spent the war in a bunker as threats to his life escalated.
After the United States inserted itself into the war by bombing three key nuclear sites in Iran, President Donald Trump sent warnings by capacity of social media to Khamenei that the US knew where he became as soon as but had no plans to execute him, “at the very least for now.”
On June 26, quickly after a ceasefire started, Khamenei spoke publicly for the first time in days, announcing in a pre-recorded assertion that Tehran had delivered a “slap to The USA’s face” by inserting a US air awful in Qatar, and warning towards further attacks by the US or Israel on Iran.
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