Iranian state-linked media reports that the IRGC is investigating an information leak from a sensitive security meeting held by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The report names Elias Ghalibaf, son of parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, as the head of Khamenei's office security detail at the time, who is alleged to have left the compound for two hours the evening before a precision strike hit the meeting hall. He has since left Iran, the report says.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has opened an investigation into an alleged intelligence leak emanating from a high-security meeting convened by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to a report carried by Iranian state-aligned media and attributed to IRGC spokesman Sardar Mojabi. The report, re-published in the early hours of Tuesday (16 June), details a chain of accusations centered on Elias Ghalibaf, the son of Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
According to the report, Elias Ghalibaf was appointed as head of Khamenei's office security detail approximately one month before the incident. It alleges that on the evening of 27 February, at 19:20 local time, he left the office compound for two hours and eight minutes, claiming to visit his ill mother. The following morning, 28 February, it was reported that his mother's condition had deteriorated and she was taken to a hospital — but the report claims no official documentation of that hospitalization was found. Shortly thereafter, a precision strike targeted the hall where the meeting was taking place, hitting the room Khamenei had briefly visited. The report states that Elias Ghalibaf left Iran via a border crossing the same day and his whereabouts remain unknown.
The allegations come at a time of intense internal scrutiny within the Iranian security apparatus, following the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the rise of his son Mojtaba Khamenei to the leadership, and the subsequent reported power struggles. The IRGC probe, as described, points to a possible security breach that enabled a precise attack on a meeting whose timing and location were tightly restricted. The account remains an unverified allegation from a single source, citing an IRGC spokesman’s phone interview. No independent confirmation has emerged.
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