President Donald Trump on Wednesday (August 27, 2026) said he believes Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since taking over after his father’s killing in February, remains alive. U.S.
“I don’t think he’s dead. He was very seriously wounded. The left side of his body, the arm, the leg, the whole thing. But I don’t think he’s dead,” Mr. Mr. “We’re going to have a big victory here very soon. We take a lot of ships through the Strait now. We’re taking them in. “We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s what it’s all about.
That’s 99.9 percent. Because the Strait is open, “You could really say, you know,.
Trump said in an interview with conservative radio host Glenn Beck. Trump — who has already declared victory over Iran on multiple occasions but remains unable to force the opening of the Hormuz sea route or force Iran to surrender its nuclear materials — said again that military and economic pressure was working. “Those things are going toward a very big victory,” he said. The mines are gone,” he said. We cannot let them because they are crazy and they will use it,” he said, before adding that he had already “stopped it twice.”
