IRAN’S new Ayatollah “cheated death” by going for a walk outside just moments before the missile strike which killed his father and wife, new audio has claimed.
New supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei “had to go out to the yard to do something” in the seconds before the Ayatollah’s Tehran HQ was razed to the ground on February 28.
The shocking “insight” into Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and many of his commanders final moments come from leaked audio obtained by The Telegraph.
In a private meeting on March 12, a top Iranian aid described it as “God’s will” that Mojtaba was outside when missiles from US and Israel’s joint operation Epic Fury struck the building.
“Mojtaba was outside and sustained only a minor injury to his leg,” Mazaher Hosseini, head of protocol for Khamenei’s office, claimed.
Sources told The Sun the 56-year-old son of assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lost at least one leg and has also suffered serious stomach or liver damage.
Hosseini added that Mojtaba’s wife was martyred instantly.
Iran military chief Mohammad Shiraz was apparently found “blown to pieces – they could find nothing from him, and at the end they found a few kilos of flesh and identified it as his body”.
In the audio, Hosseini said at least three missiles were used to strike Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s compound.
“The missile was so powerful that it went downstairs where Mr Misbah [Ali Khamenei’s brother-in-law] was… the missiles hit in a way that his head was cut in half,” he said.
Khamenei’s eldest son and his wife survived the attack “unharmed”, Hosseini claimed.
Israel and the US worked closely together in the run up to operation Epic Fury – with the CIA passing information to Israel to help launch its long-planned pinpoint attack.
They followed the dictator’s every move for months, carefully observing his patterns, sources told the New York Times.
The plan was to take Khamenei out at night, under the cover of darkness.
But when the CIA learnt that the Ayatollah would chair a meeting of top Iranian officials at a leadership compound in the heart of Tehran on Saturday morning, they knew it was time to strike.
Israel’s spies infiltrated Khamenei’s regime and knew where and when three meetings were taking place.
Fighter jets took off at around 6am in Israel, starting an operation that would send shockwaves through the Middle East.
Around 9.40am, the IDF’s long-range missiles hit Khamenei’s compound.
The IDF killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and senior officials “in just half a minute in the opening strike”, Israel’s Channel 12 news reported.
Operation Epic Fury was unleashed in daylight — knowing the targets would be suspecting night attacks, like previous raids.
And the Ayatollah suffered an inglorious death – with the warped tyrant’s body found in a pile of rubble.
