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Iran’s Supreme Leader in Hiding Under Secret Guard as Israel Considers Assassination Strike

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(TJV NEWS) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader since 1989, has been moved to a secret, highly fortified location under the protection of a previously unknown elite security unit, The Daily Telegraph reports. This drastic shift in protocol comes amid increasingly open threats from Israel and fears of deep Israeli infiltration within the regime’s inner circle.

According to Iranian officials cited by The Telegraph, the unit assigned to protect Khamenei was so clandestine that even senior members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were unaware of its existence. “He’s not hiding from death in a bunker,” one official told the newspaper, “but his life is in danger, and only the most trusted now surround him.”

The mounting threat to Khamenei follows a series of Israeli assassinations, including the killing of at least 11 senior Iranian military officials and 14 nuclear scientists since hostilities began just a week ago. The Telegraph notes that Israel’s rhetoric has grown increasingly bold, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggesting Khamenei’s death could help end the conflict. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz went further, calling Khamenei a “modern Hitler” who “cannot be allowed to continue existing.”

Even  U.S. President Donald Trump, who reportedly blocked a previous Israeli attempt to kill Khamenei, hinted at renewed pressure. Speaking on Tuesday, Trump claimed, “We know exactly where the so-called ‘supreme leader’ is hiding,” adding that while there were no immediate plans to target him, Khamenei would be an “easy target” if that policy changed, according to The Telegraph.

Despite rumors that Iranian officials may flee to Moscow, The Telegraph reports there’s no evidence that Khamenei plans to leave the country. Officials insist the 86-year-old leader remains inside Iran, possibly near or beneath an IRGC media operations center in Tehran, based on recent changes in the background of his televised addresses.

His new backdrop—a brown curtain and a portrait of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini—marks a notable shift from previous public addresses, suggesting he is no longer operating from his long-established residence in Tehran’s District 11.

Given Mossad’s long history of high-level targeted killings—including the infamous 2020 assassination of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh using a remote-controlled weapon—Khamenei’s caution is well-founded. The Telegraph recalls similar Mossad operations, such as the killing of Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash via a booby-trapped mobile phone, and more recently, the death of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah via a bunker-busting airstrike in Beirut.

The Telegraph highlights that the Nasrallah operation deeply rattled Khamenei, not only due to the loss of a close ally but because the intelligence leak is believed to have originated from Tehran itself—raising fears of internal betrayal at the highest levels.

Khamenei, who avoids electronic communication to prevent tracking, has reportedly resorted to moving frequently to evade detection. Still, The Telegraph notes that Israeli intelligence—using a combination of human sources, intercepted communications, and AI-assisted pattern analysis—has likely been mapping his movements for years.

According to Yaakov Amidror, Israel’s former national security advisor, Khamenei is “probably one of the most cautious people in the world.” As he told The Telegraph, “He understands he must be the next target.”

Should Israel move to act, the operation could take many forms: an airstrike, a drone attack, or a covert special forces raid. “If he’s in a bunker, you use the air force. If he’s in an apartment, you use a drone. If he’s in a car, you use a street-level agent,” Amidror explained.

As The Daily Telegraph concludes, the question now is not whether Khamenei is in the crosshairs—but when and how the trigger might be pulled.

3 COMMENTS

  1. Unconditional surrender. I don’t like the language about “peace”. There should be no negotiations at all. There is no possibility of a real peace with the Muslim monsters. An unconditional surrender means that they identify and give up every bit of their uranium, plutonium, and anything which could be used in the future to build a nuclear weapon. So we don’t want “peace“ at all. What we insist upon has to be handing over EVERYTHING!

  2. Having spectacularly achieved the destruction of much of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the next step has to be complete victory.

    This point, the US has set back Iran’s nuclear enrichment and nuclear weapons program, but that is only at best a temporary victory. But entirely destroying every bit of it, and requiring Iran to identify and disclose every part of it, and disgorge all of its contents into America’s hands may set back Iran’s nuclear weapons for for a number of years.

    But that is NOT a permanent victory or resolution.

    Although everyone wants to avoid requiring it of Iran, the real step must be REGIME CHANGE!

    Until then, there can be no true victory!

  3. Until there is a regime change, I think the “assassination strike“ discussed in this article, will have to occur. If the Iranian people are in fact supportive of taking back their country, and are willing to confront the Muslim terrorist Khomeini then they will do so. If they don’t, I think the rest of the world is left with the assassination option.

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