This is John Batchelor. Colleague Malcolm Honlon reports that there is no confirmation that

Motsubai Humini, the so-called Ayatollah, who inherited from his father. There is no confirmation

that he lives with us. There is no confirmation that he's recovering from wounds. There's no

confirmation of any of this.

The photographs all over the Tehran

don't make the same thing as a human being

who's giving orders.

The presumption is someone's giving orders.

Is it collectively?

Is it one member of the IRGC unknown?

Here's Malcolm to explain what we don't know about much to buy

how many the said-to-be new Iatola.

I would say that that is definitely an option,

that it's the IRGC leadership that is dictating.

And remember, these are not the experienced ones.

These are

second and third, fourth level in many cases because the others were eliminated. But

inasmuch as nobody has seen him, nobody knows if he's, in fact, signing orders, capable of

signing orders, even still the rumors that he was killed. I think the, the, you, they're putting this picture up all over the city.

I see video all the time of his face.

They're trying to, the symbolism, right?

They need that symbolism to unify people and to, and you see even in the crowds that

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