{"id":242825,"date":"2026-08-10T03:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/242825\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T03:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:33:17","slug":"us-politics-iran-war-live-updates-iran-releases-rare-clip-of-supreme-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/242825\/","title":{"rendered":"US politics, Iran war live updates: Iran releases rare clip of Supreme Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n

Iran has shared a rare clip of its new Supreme Leader, Motjaba Khamenei, 56, in apparent fit condition and consulting with officials.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first time in almost six months the mysterious leader has been seen in public.<\/p>\n

According to US and Israeli sources, Mr Khamenei suffered serious injuries to his face and leg during an airstrike on his father\u2019s compound in February. <\/p>\n

\"Trump<\/p>\n

The clip has done little to quell rumours about the leader\u2019s ailing health.<\/p>\n

It comes as President Trump signalled he\u2019s ready to change tactics to win the Iran war.<\/p>\n

The embattled president, who said the conflict over would be over in a matter of weeks – but is now in its sixth month, said the US was \u201clow keying it\u201d with Tehran. <\/p>\n

Mr Trump said he is prioritising economic sanctions over launching a fresh wave of air strikes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will work out. It always works out. It\u2019s like a chess game,\u201d he told Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the US-led 15-point peace plan to disarm Hamas after President Trump announced a breakthrough last week, in which his Board of Peace announced a deal with the terror group.<\/p>\n

Read below for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to our live coverage of US politics and the Middle East conflict. Iran has shared a rare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[67827,67800,61573,67804,67797,67820,67814,66171,61206,67818,67829,67807,260,67795,67809,67815,60544,7440,12304,1411,67806,67816,67799,67824,102,34,196,5382,67826,67825,8810,2289,29495,67810,15401,7395,67828,67813,61178,2405,722,5415,67801,67822,67821,67817,1974,67812,69,27301,67802,67803,67819,67805,67798,67811,11170,67823,21573,67808,61220,7241,193,67796,4056,16240],"class_list":["post-242825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-s-ailing","tag-s-compound","tag-s-supreme-leader","tag-67804","tag-6-months","tag-a-breakthrough","tag-a-chess-game","tag-a-deal","tag-a-fresh-wave","tag-a-matter","tag-a-rare-clip","tag-a-u-s-navy-led-blockade","tag-air-strikes","tag-almost-six-months","tag-an-airstrike","tag-apparent-fit-condition-and-consulting","tag-critics","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-february","tag-hamas","tag-health-it","tag-his-board","tag-his-face-and-leg","tag-his-father","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-its-new-supreme-leader","tag-its-sixth-month","tag-last-week","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-motjaba-khamenei","tag-mr-khamenei","tag-mr-trump","tag-naval-mines","tag-new-iran-leader","tag-officials-it","tag-our-live-coverage","tag-peace","tag-president-trump","tag-public","tag-rare-clip","tag-rumours","tag-serious-injuries","tag-six-months","tag-supreme-leader","tag-tactics","tag-tehran","tag-the-conflict","tag-the-first-time","tag-the-iran-war-the-embattled-president","tag-the-key-waterway-the-clip","tag-the-leader","tag-the-middle-east-conflict","tag-the-mysterious-leader","tag-the-strait","tag-the-terror-group-read","tag-the-us","tag-the-us-led-15-point-peace-plan","tag-the-war","tag-threats","tag-updates","tag-us-and-israeli-sources","tag-us-politics","tag-weeks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}