An OSINT analysis claims official documents issued in Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei's name share the same digital fingerprint as the publication office of Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. The finding fuels ongoing questions about Khamenei's whereabouts and who is effectively running Iran, according to Jewish Breaking News.
A new open-source intelligence analysis published Thursday morning claims that official documents issued in the name of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei share the same digital fingerprint as the publishing office of Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. The analysis, reported by Jewish Breaking News, comes amid weeks of reports about Khamenei's status following his reported ascent to power after his father's assassination last month.
Multiple background reports by The Zioneer over the past weeks have documented persistent questions about Khamenei's whereabouts and physical condition, as well as claims that Ghalibaf is the real decision-maker in Tehran. In early June, Iran International reported that contact with Khamenei had been severed during an escalation with Israel. Later reports included claims of an abduction from a Tehran hospital and contradictory accounts about his appearance at his father's funeral.
The latest OSINT finding adds a technical dimension to the uncertainty: if the digital fingerprint of documents in Khamenei's name traces back to Ghalibaf's office, it could suggest that key official communications attributed to the Supreme Leader are in fact being produced by the parliament speaker's apparatus. The finding is attributed to a single analysis and has not been independently confirmed by other sources or by official Iranian bodies.
As of Thursday morning, no statement from Iranian state media or from the offices of Khamenei or Ghalibaf has addressed the claim.
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