{"id":147844,"date":"2026-03-13T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147844"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:23:09","slug":"us-says-irans-new-supreme-leader-likely-wounded-dismisses-strait-of-hormuz-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147844","title":{"rendered":"US says Iran\u2019s new supreme leader likely \u2018wounded\u2019, dismisses Strait of Hormuz concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that Iran\u2019s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has been injured and pledged to continue ramping up attacks, while playing down the impact of the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz.<br \/>\nKhamenei is \u201cwounded and likely disfigured\u201d, Hegseth said during a press conference on Friday morning. The new Iranian leader\u2019s first public address, issued on Thursday through a written statement, showed that \u201che\u2019s scared, he\u2019s injured, he\u2019s on the run, and he&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/diplomacy\/article\/3346558\/us-says-irans-new-supreme-leader-likely-wounded-dismisses-strait-hormuz-concerns?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that Iran\u2019s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has been injured and pledged to continue ramping up&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}