Iran’s leader Khamenei takes refuge in underground bunker amid possible US attack

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has left public life and is in an underground bunker due to a possible US attack on the Islamic Republic. According to media reports, the decision was made amid rising military tensions in the region.

This is reported by The Times of Israel .

According to journalists, Ali Khamenei went underground after senior Iranian officials assessed the increased risk of a possible attack by the United States. This is associated with the transfer of significant American military forces to the region.

The Supreme Leader of Iran has reportedly been taken to a bunker with his family members. The shelter is being guarded by an elite unit.

While Khamenei is in the underground bunker, his third son, Massoud Khamenei, has taken over the day-to-day management of his father’s office and serves as the main channel of communication with the government leadership.

The opposition website also claims that the supreme leader’s bunker is a fortified complex with a system of interconnected tunnels.

International Business Times journalists, citing intelligence sources, report that Khamenei’s secret bunker is located in the Lavisan district of Tehran. According to them, the facility is at least 90-100 meters underground and is protected by anti-aircraft systems.

The material notes that this shelter is considered more secure than the underground nuclear facility in Fordow, which was attacked by American B-2 strategic bombers in June.

As is known, at the end of last year,a wave of mass protests broke out in Iran , caused by the rapid fall of the national currency and the aggravation of the economic crisis. Against the background of the collapse of the Iranian rial, the ayatollah regime is increasingly losing control of the situation, which is causing open resistance in various regions of the country. Subsequently, Donald Trump stated that the United States may intervene in the internal affairs of Iran in the event of a brutal suppression of peaceful protests. He emphasized that the United States is ready to support the demonstrators if the Iranian authorities use lethal force.

On January 13, US President Donald Trump once again expressed support for Iranians participating in the protests that have erupted in the country. The head of state said that he had canceled all meetings with Iranian officials and stressed that aid for the protesters was on the way .

Estimates of the number of people killed in the protests range from over 3,000 (human rights activists) to several thousand (Iranian regime, as stated by Khamenei) and even 12,000-20,000 (activists and media estimates), although exact figures are difficult to establish due to censorship and communication suppression. Human rights activists report at least 3,090 deaths, mostly protesters, but the authorities blame the violence on “terrorists” and external forces.

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