Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei
By Gulshan Parveen
Amid the ongoing conflict with Israel, Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei has taken shelter in a bunker in Lavizan in northeastern Tehran.
He moved there just hours after Israel began its attacks on Tehran early Friday (June 13), Iran International reported, citing sources.
Along with Khamenei, his other family members, including his son Mojtaba, also took shelter in the bunker.
The Iranian news agency reported that during the other previous operations against Israel, True Promise 1 and True Promise 2 – the Ayatollah was in the bunker with his family.
This came after Israel targeted the city of Mashhad on Sunday (June 15) for the first time.
A source told the agency that the airstrike was a warning to Khamenei that he is not safe anywhere in the country.
The source said that Israel could have killed Khamenei on the first night of the attack itself. But the Netanyahu government chose to keep him alive and gave him a final chance to dismantle his country’s uranium enrichment program.
Trump had given Khamenei a two-month deadline to agree to dismantle Iran’s enrichment program. But, the Ayatollah has rejected both of the warnings.
