Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been hiding in a bunker since the launch of Israel’s war on Iran and has secretly named three clerics as possible successors in the event he is killed, the New York Times reported on Shabbos. The report added that Khamenei, 86, has also appointed replacements for top military commanders, fearing that additional senior army figures will be targeted by Israel. According to three Iranian sources quoted in the report, Khamenei has ceased using all digital means of communication due to fear of detection and is carrying out all his communications via an aide. Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba, who has been considered a possible successor, was not one of the three names identified by Khamenei.
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