Iran faces a moment of historic weakness following Israel’s airstrikes on military facilities throughout the Islamic country on Saturday morning.
As the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism considers whether it will respond to the strikes, a new report suggests that the country’s leader has become gravely ill.
Buried in a report from The New York Times on Saturday was the revelation that intelligence officials believe that 85-year-old Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is “seriously ill.”
The report noted that Khamenei’s health was a factor the regime was having to contend with as it weighs the risks of responding to a vastly superior Israeli military.
The country’s economy continues to struggle and a war with Israel would likely result in its oil infrastructure being wiped out, which would crash its economy again.
Israel has also decimated Iran’s top two…
