{"id":87377,"date":"2026-03-13T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/irans-supreme-leader-likely-disfigured-claims-us-defence-secretary-pete-hegseth-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:43:40","slug":"irans-supreme-leader-likely-disfigured-claims-us-defence-secretary-pete-hegseth-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/irans-supreme-leader-likely-disfigured-claims-us-defence-secretary-pete-hegseth-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s supreme leader &#8216;likely disfigured&#8217;, claims US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says Iran&#8217;s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is &#8220;wounded&#8221; and &#8220;likely disfigured\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, we do <!--more--> not have proof this is the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re shooting down and destroying what missiles they have in stock and, more importantly, ensuring they have no ability to build more,&#8221; Hegseth told a Pentagon briefing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>On the Strait of Hormuz, he accused Iran of &#8220;sheer desperation&#8221; &#8211; but claimed the US was &#8220;dealing with&#8221; it.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Iran #US #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says Iran&#8217;s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is &#8220;wounded&#8221; and &#8220;likely disfigured\u201d. However, we do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}