CBS News, published this morning (May 25, 2026), citing U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter. Here's what the reporting says: U.S. intelligence shows that Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is effectively holed up in an undisclosed location with little access to the outside world and is only reached by a labyrinth of couriers. The Iranian officials authorized to work with the Trump administration have been having a difficult time communicating inside of their own government system — and it's a central reason why the details of a potential deal with Iran have been slow to emerge. When the U.S. sends proposed details, the difficulty in reaching the supreme leader means there can be a long delay before the U.S. receives a response. CBS News
Most Iranian leaders don't see daylight, spending weeks inside highly fortified bunkers and avoiding speaking to each other unless absolutely necessary. One official was quoted saying, "Watching them try to figure out how to talk to each other is almost like watching a sitcom. They are completely exasperated." CBS NewsCBS News
Khamenei, who was injured in U.S.-Israeli strikes under Operation Epic Fury, is taking extreme measures to avoid strikes similar to the ones that killed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. India TV News
Even the highest officials in the Iranian government are unaware of his location and are not able to directly contact him directly. Instead, messages are passed through a network of couriers created to obscure the supreme leader's location. The Jerusalem Post
Story from CBS News that broke today. The key context is that this is Iran's new Supreme Leader — Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the previous Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the February 28, 2026 U.S.-Israeli strikes.
It's quite a remarkable situation geopolitically — negotiations being slowed down by a courier relay system feels almost medieval, but given that U.S. and Israeli intelligence apparently tracked and killed much of the Iranian leadership through their electronic communications, it makes grim strategic sense why Mojtaba Khamenei would go completely dark.
We need to keep that level of fear going.
YES they are now operating with primitive methods of communications!
Just ONE of them needs to make a deal, and a deal is a deal. How can they prove otherwise without revealing the person and his location!
Everything is optics. No amount of communication will solve anything as long as the leadership in Iran has gun to their head by their masters in the City of London.
And that will be removed only after Trump has squeezed every outcome he needs around the world with the energy chokehold, and it looks like he is also squeezing out every controlled oppostion including RINOs as well.
MSM source so not reliable.
Be muslim, want to convert all countries into the Stone Age.
Be Trump, grant their wish. 🤣🫡🇺🇸
But the real Iranian people do not deserve to be destroyed b/c of their tyrannical "leadership" which overthrew their legitimate civilization.
If the Iranian people supported the regime, ok make glass of their sand.
But there was an evil regime change that they did not want. So we do not want to destroy them or their civilization. BUT they have to rise up don't they? Are they?
Time will tell.
They are right to be afraid of using communication devices. But we are still watching every move they make and know where all the bunkers are.
They may be worried about someone listening, but with a terrorist state using exploding pagers they may have another reason to be weary of cell phones.
I think so too.
If thats true then their military has the same problem amd if we are that tapped into them then Trump is demonstrating great grace in allowing them to continue to drag it out or trump wants/needs this to stretch for a bit.
If they were being honest about restoring the country for the people of Iran and negotiating in good faith, they wouldn't have much to worry about from the US. Their most difficult task should be removing their DS handlers.
It's not just the US they are worried about. They also fear retribution by the citizens of Iran that have been under their thumbs after 47 years of oppression.
It does seem that their stupidity is decreasing the longer the war goes on! Kek
This is written like a piece of propaganda, and notably has the use of the emdash, so it's likely AI.
Source is CBS News, so that's unreliable as well.
I heard it on overnight radio as I summarized in the title. I could not find a source so I did ask claude AI.