… start gathering assets, properties abroad and cash to facilitate safe passage
*“Khamenei is now weaker, both mentally and physically. He is a paranoid leader, whose plan is to leave Iran should the Islamic Republic’s security forces desert him”– Western Intelligence Agency
*BY SHOLAGBADE ADEYEMI/DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT in Tehran/Naija Standard Newspaper Inc USA
As the ongoing protest, unrest in the Islamic Republic of Iran progressed, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has a back-up plan to flee Iran for Moscow with a close circle of up to 20 aides and family should unrest intensify and security forces desert or fail to suppress the protests, going by an intelligence report.
“The ‘plan B’ is for Khamenei and his very close circle of associates and family, including his son and nominated heir apparent, Mojtaba, to elope” The Times reported citing an intelligence source.
“They have plotted an exit route out of Tehran should they feel the need to escape,” which includes “gathering assets, properties abroad and cash to facilitate their safe passage,” the source was quoted as saying.
Khamenei is now “weaker, both mentally and physically”, The Times reported citing a psychological profile of Khamenei done by a Western intelligence agency.
The profile called Khamenei a “paranoid” leader, a trait that shaped his plan to leave Iran should the Islamic Republic’s security forces desert him.
“On one hand, he is very ideologically motivated, but on the other he is pragmatic in what he sees: he sees tactical compromise for long-term greater cause. He is a long-term thinker,” read the assessment.
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