Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been in hiding for nearly a week after Israel killed Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iranian-backed terrorist group, in an airstrike late last week.
Khamenei had tried repeatedly to get Nasrallah to flee Lebanon and come to Iran for weeks before he was killed, fearing that it was only a matter of time before Israel got to him, Reuters reported.
The Iranian leader, who personally ordered the firing of nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel this week, has become deeply paranoid about Israeli infiltration throughout the Iranian government, military, and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Khamenei authorized the missile attack on Israel after concluding, at the insistence of senior IRGC commanders, that it would be riskier to do nothing in response to Israel killing Nasrallah and Hamas terrorist leader Ismail Haniyeh inside of Iran over the summer.
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Senior IRGC commander, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan, who Khamenei sent to convince Nasrallah to come to Iran, was killed alongside Nasrallah in Israel’s airstrike on the deeply fortified bunker where they were hiding in Beirut.
The report said that Khamenei has remained “in a secure location inside Iran since Saturday” and has not left over fears that he is next on Israel’s list.
There has been a widespread collapse in trust inside Hezbollah, Iran, and between Iran and the various terrorist proxy groups that it oversees, the report said.
The paranoia has become so rampant that Iran has started to arrest members of the IRGC — the hardline ideological faction of Iran’s military — over suspicions that they are working for Israel.
Sources inside Iran’s government told the publication that “the trust that held everything together has disappeared” and that Khamenei “no longer trusts anyone.”
