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UNCOVERED: Where next for khamenei after war iran s supreme leader is faced with difficult choices - The Untold Story

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei makes a speech in Tehran, Iran, on July 16, 2025. Photo by Iranian Leader Press Office/Anadolu via Getty Images

In the weeks since Israel’s expansive 12-day war, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rarely been seen in public.

That absence has inevitably led to speculation over the 86-year-old’s health. But it also left many Middle East observers wondering about the future direction of the republic, and how its leadership will respond to possibly Iran’s biggest challenges since the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

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