Iran's supreme leader is holed up in undisclosed location, U.S. intel says

U.S. quality shows that Iran's ultimate leader is efficaciously holed up successful an undisclosed determination with small entree to the extracurricular satellite and is lone reached by a labyrinth of couriers, according to U.S. officials with cognition of the matter. 

The Iranian officials authorized to enactment with the Trump medication person been having a hard clip communicating wrong of their ain authorities strategy — and it's a cardinal crushed wherefore the details of a imaginable woody with Iran and past agreements person been dilatory to emerge, 

When the U.S. sends projected details, the trouble successful reaching the ultimate person means determination tin beryllium a agelong hold earlier the U.S. receives a response, 2 of the officials said. 

A White House spokesperson declined to remark connected quality connected the ultimate leader's whereabouts oregon Iranian connection methods.

A elder medication authoritative said Sunday the ultimate person had agreed to the contours of the existent draught agreement, and President Trump posted connected Truth Social that helium anticipated last connection successful the adjacent fewer days.

Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who was injured successful U.S. and Israeli strikes successful Operation Epic Fury, is taking utmost measures to debar the strikes akin to the ones that killed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled Iran from 1989 until Feb. 28. Mojtaba Khamenei has not been officially seen oregon heard successful nationalist since earlier the commencement of the war.

U.S. and Israeli quality obtained from wrong the Iranian authorities has made it imaginable to find and destruct overmuch of the Iranian elder enactment during the war, 1 of the officials said.

At this point, astir Iranian leaders don't spot daylight, spending weeks wrong highly fortified bunkers and avoiding speaking to each different unless perfectly necessary, the sources said. 

"Watching them effort to fig retired however to speech to each different is astir similar watching a sitcom. They are wholly exasperated," 1 authoritative said. 

The astir cautious measures are being taken by the ultimate leader. 

By design, adjacent officials astatine the highest levels of the Iranian authorities don't cognize wherever helium is and person nary mode to interaction him directly. 

Instead, messages are passed done a web of couriers created to obscure the ultimate leader's location.

"This is wherefore you spot radical saying things like, 'The ultimate person has agreed to the framework,' oregon 'We're waiting to perceive backmost connected the last woody points.' Every portion of accusation helium receives is dated and there's a batch of latency to his responses," 1 authoritative said.

The ultimate person has communicated successful wide presumption to his subordinates, giving them absorption connected what issues they tin negociate connected and which issues shouldn't beryllium discussed. 

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