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Iran's new supreme leader is wounded and 'likely disfigured,' Hegseth says
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Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth ridiculed Iran ’s leadership Friday — claiming the theocracy’s “rat”-like executives had “gone underground” and that new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is “likely disfigured.

” “Iran’s leadership is in no better shape, desperate and hiding. They’ve gone underground, cowering. That’s what rats do,” Hegseth jeered at a press conference.“He put our statement yesterday —a weak one, actually —but there was no voice and there was no video. It was a written statement.” Although Hegseth claimed Iran’s leaders are underground, videos posted online Friday showed many top leaders marching in Tehran for Quds Day, an annual pro-Palestinian event — including President Giant pipe mysteriously bursts through ground, rises 30 feet above road Iran claims it has enormous supply of naval suicide drones in chilling footage from underground ‘missile city’ How Iran's deepest nuclear site could be the key to ending the war — and it could require boots on the groundAttacker rams car bomb into synagogue preschool, Iran’s new Ayatollah speaks outStream It Or Skip It: 'Scarpetta' On Prime Video, Where Nicole Kidman Is A Medical Examiner Who Is Haunted By Serial Killings She Thought She Solved Two Decades Ago

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