Trump doubts Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is dead: 'If he is, they're putting on a pretty good show'
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President Trump said Wednesday that he believes Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is alive but badly wounded from a February airstrike β dismissing speculation that he is secretly dead despite being unseen throughout the US-Israeli war with his country.
"I don't think he's dead. He was very seriously wounded. The left side of his body, the arm, the leg, the whole thing," Trump told radio host Glenn Beck in an interview.
"He was very seriously wounded, but I don't think he's dead. And if he is, they're putting on a pretty good show."...
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