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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said connected Tuesday (June 2, 2026) that Iran's ultimate person Mojtaba Khamenei, who was wounded successful U.S.-Israeli attacks and has not been seen successful nationalist since assuming office, is live and progressively active.
"I deliberation determination are indications retired determination that helium is progressively engaging astatine immoderate level," Mr. Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, succeeded his begetter Ali Khamenei, who was killed successful the archetypal question of U.S.-Israeli strikes that launched the warfare connected February 28.
Mr. Rubio was testifying successful beforehand of the Senate sheet arsenic talks connected ending the three-month-old warfare that has engulfed the West Asia and triggered a planetary vigor situation person stalled.
Rubio connected Iran’s atomic enrichment
Mr. Rubio expressed anticipation for a woody with Iran, portion insisting that Tehran indispensable severely bounds its atomic programme successful bid to spot sanctions lifted.
"There is the imaginable earlier us, which could hap today, it could hap tomorrow, it could hap adjacent week," Mr. Rubio said.
Mr. Rubio said that Tehran indispensable hold to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a cardinal shipping transmission for Gulf lipid and gas.
"They person to denote precise intelligibly 'The straits are present open, we're not charging a toll'." We volition assistance region the mines that they enactment successful there, and they volition not occurrence connected ships."
Additionally, helium said: "They person to hold connected negotiating terrible and semipermanent limitations and/or cancellation of enrichment activity."
Mr. Rubio continued: "Iran is being sanctioned due to the fact that they've highly enriched uranium, Iran is being sanctioned due to the fact that of their atomic activities, if they hold to springiness up those things, determination volition beryllium sanctions relief."
