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Inside Tehran following the high the fire of Israel-Iran

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On the ground in Tehran following the high the fire of Israel-Iran 03:25

“I offer my congratulations on the victory for the fallacious Zionist regime,” a message published Thursday over the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was declared. Another publication added the bold statement that the Israel government “was practically knocked out and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic.”

In a video direction recorded to your nation, your first public comments from the The high the Fire of the US On Tuesday, Khamenei went further, which suggests that a “large amount of military and other objectives” in Israel had been attacked by Iran’s missiles.

They may have been attacked, but in reality, the 12 days of Iran missile launch saw relatively few rockets evading Israel’s aerial defenses. A total of 28 people were killed, and none of them have been identified as government officials, but rather civilians killed when missiles hit apartment and cities buildings.

Israel’s attacks on Iran killed at least 30 military commanders, on the other hand, and, in combination with the attacks of the United States during the weekend, they “erased” the nuclear program of the country, according to President Trump. The group based in the United States Human Rights activists in Iran, which is based on a network of sources in the country, said strikes that strikes had killed at least 1,054 people in Iran, including a total of 318 military personnel.

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Satellite photo taken on June 22, 2025 by Maxar Technologies, shows craters and ashes on the crest in the Underdo de Fordo complex in Iran after US attacks. UU. Satellite image © 2025 Maxar Technologies

While the complete damage of the inflicted damage is still compiled, the heads of two intelligence agencies of the United States said Wednesday that “New” indicated intelligence The Iranian nuclear enrichment program was probably retreated by the “years.” The office of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said early Wednesday that the country’s own intelligence evaluation showed that Iran’s nuclear program was replaced “many years.”

Khamenei had a very different opinion, again, offered without any detail or evidence. He said that the United States had joined the strikes of Israel “as it was felt that if it did not, the Zionist regime will be completely annihilated, so they entered the war to avoid this.”

“They failed to do anything important for our nuclear facilities,” he said, adding that Trump had “exaggerated everything” and even that Iran had given “the United States a great slap on the face” by attacking the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which is the home of thousands of US forces.

But none of the approximately dozens of missiles shot at the expansion base. They were intercepted, despite the affirmation of the ayatollah of “much damage” to the site

Will anxiety in Iran feeding the doubtful statements of Ayatollah?

Khamenei’s comments on Thursday were heavy in rhetorical flourishes and practically devoid of any fact, and may have been addressed more to the people of Iran than in the world in general.

The theocratic rulers of Iran, who swept power with the Islamic Revolution of 1979 that knocked down a western government led by the Royal Family of the SHAH, have long maintained strict control over all media in the country, and many Iranians have little access to external information.

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People hold the flags of Iran and Hezbollah, as well as the photos of the supreme leader Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, as the Iranians go to the streets in Tehran, Iran, on June 24, 2025, to celebrate the high fire after a 12 -day war with Israel. Deny/images of Middle East/News/Getty

Even so, especially among the youngest and most expert generations in technology, there is an understanding of the degree to which Iran people do not enjoy the freedoms that many other countries guarantee, and have led to several popular protest uprisings in the last decade. All of them have been brutally annulled by the authorities, but Netanyahu called very quickly after Israel began to bomb Iran for new anti -government protests in the country, urging the Iranians to take advantage of the attacks, which he had put the Ayatolá in its weakest position.

Khamenei has not yet been seen live or in public since El Alto El Fuego, and his precise whereabouts remained without being clear on Thursday after the pre -recorded video message was launched.

While the high fire allowed the Israelis to delight on Wednesday on a return to normal, with the Levante 12 days of security measures in war timeIn Tehran, anxiety still seemed abundant.

The News themezone correspondent, Imtiaz Tyab, and their team were given Iranian Visas to enter the country at the beginning of the week, and were the first US transmission network to enter Tehran since the war began. But he took an arduous trip through the aggregate landscapes and through the border from Türkiye To get to the capital of Iranlike the country’s airspace had been closed.

Tyab said that the Iranian capital felt very different this week compared to its previous visit about five years before, when, despite the government’s authoritarian control over everyday life, it was a vibrant metropolis. On Thursday, despite the truce, most companies remained closed, and the feeling of nervousness was palpable.

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Tucker Reals

Tucker Reals is the foreign editor of News, based in the News themezone London office. He has worked for News themezone since 2006, before which he worked for News in Washington, DC and London.

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