Trump Claims Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei '90% Gone'

President of the United States Donald Trump has claimed that Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is ‘90% gone’. Trump also stated that Iran’s top military commanders have been killed in the war. In an interview with US media outlet Fox News, Trump reiterated that Iran’s military capabilities have been severely weakened. ‘They have no Navy. They have no Air Force. It’s all gone. Their air defences are destroyed. Their leaders are all dead,’ Trump said during the interview. Trump momentarily misidentified the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as ‘Khomeini’, referring to Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian revolution who died in 1989. ‘Their best leaders are dead. They’re finished. Khomeini is gone,’ Trump said, apparently confusing the name of the late Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the initial wave of US-Israeli strikes on 28 February. ‘His son, 90% gone,’ the US President claimed, referring to Mojtaba, the current Supreme Leader of Iran and son of the late Ali Khamenei. Mojtaba has not appeared in public even once since being appointed Supreme Leader in early March. He is reportedly recovering from injuries sustained during the combined US-Israeli air strikes on Iran. During the multi-day funeral ceremonies held for his father in cities across Iran and Iraq earlier this month, Mojtaba was notably absent. However, after Khamenei’s body was buried in Mashhad on 9 July, Mojtaba issued a statement vowing to avenge his father’s death. He stated that avenging his father’s killing was a ‘demand of the nation’ and ‘must be carried out’. ‘This revenge is the will of our nation and must be executed,’ he said in a letter signed on Friday (10/7). ‘This matter does not depend on my personal presence, nor on that of other officials. Whether we are present or not, it will happen,’ Mojtaba declared in his statement. ‘We pledge to avenge the blood of the fallen leader and all the martyrs of these two wars against those criminal and despicable murderers,’ he asserted.