Iran’s Ayatollah ‘hiding in bunker’ over fears of ‘imminent’ US strikes

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0 January 25, 2026 15:01

IRAN’S supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is reportedly cowering in an underground bunker – hiding out of fear he could be wiped out by US airstrikes.

The 86-year-old bloodthirsty autocrat is said to have fled to a heavily fortified shelter linked by a maze of tunnels under Tehran as an American armada powers toward the Persian Gulf.

Read more: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38014597/iran-leader-retreats-underground-us-airstrikes-trump/

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