World · 30 August 2026
Iran's unseen supreme leader urges Gulf countries to fight a shared enemy
Mostafa Tehrani via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-4.0)
Mojtaba Khamenei has not appeared in public since American and Israeli airstrikes killed his father six months ago to start the current war. He used a Telegram post to ask neighbouring Arab monarchies to put aside their differences and fight what he called their real adversaries. The region remains deeply fractured, with Iranian forces recently attacking American military bases and other infrastructure inside Gulf countries.
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