{"id":83096,"date":"2026-08-26T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/83096\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:30:21","slug":"iran-is-ruled-by-a-phantom-is-mojtaba-khamenei-dead-or-incapacitated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/83096\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Iran is ruled by a phantom&#8217;: Is Mojtaba Khamenei dead or incapacitated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"&#039;Iran is ruled by a phantom&#039;: Is Mojtaba Khamenei dead or incapacitated?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cMH8umt1VIg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8216;Iran is ruled by a phantom&#8217;: Is Mojtaba Khamenei dead or incapacitated?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCatch up on today&#8217;s episode of Iran: the Latest where\u00a0Roland Oliphant\u00a0and senior foreign correspondent Adrian Blomfield analyze whether Donald Trump offering Vladimir Putin a trade-off on Ukraine to sever Moscow\u2019s backing of Tehran, or issuing a direct intelligence warning against Russian regional escalation.<\/p>\n<p>Plus,\u00a0questions mount over whether Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is dead or incapacitated while the regime rules via a &#8220;phantom&#8221; leadership.<\/p>\n<p>CONTRIBUTORS:<br \/>\nRoland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant<br \/>\nAdrian Blomfield, senior foreign correspondent @adrianblomfield <\/p>\n<p>Winner Best News and Analysis Podcast &#8211; Publisher Podcast Awards 2026<br \/>\nNominated Podcast of the Year &#8211; Society of Editors News Podcasts Awards 2026<br \/>\nNominated Best News, Politics and Current Affairs &#8211; British Podcast Awards 2026<br \/>\nThe Telegraph, Winner Podcast Publisher of the Year 2026 &#8211; Publisher Podcast Awards 2026<\/p>\n<p>Audio Producer: David Dargahi<br \/>\nVideo Producer: Max Bower<br \/>\nResearcher and Social Producer: Anna Hindmarsh<br \/>\nStudio Operator: Chris January<br \/>\nExecutive Producer: Venetia Rainey <\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day&#8217;s biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk\/fromtheeditor<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba EMAIL US: Contact the team on battlelines@telegraph.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba GET THE LATEST HEADLINES: Find all our latest Iran coverage here: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/iran-war\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Iran is ruled by a phantom&#8217;: Is Mojtaba Khamenei dead or incapacitated? Catch up on today&#8217;s episode of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[66731,60954,67230,14,1612,345,3634,16703,28961,40,41,67231,66462,67232,67233,67234,13170,27,340,337,67235,257],"class_list":["post-83096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-telegraph","tag-barron-trump","tag-china-iran-sanctions","tag-cia-moscow","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran-latest","tag-iran-news","tag-iran-sanctions","tag-iran-war-news-today","tag-john-ratcliffe","tag-middle-east","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-oman-deal-iran-war","tag-operation-economic-outcast","tag-putin-iran","tag-red-sea-houthis","tag-saudi-aramco-oil","tag-scott-bessent","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-telegraph","tag-the-telegraph","tag-us-china-cold-war","tag-us-iran-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117163009144433679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}