Iran war updates: US says can maintain blockade on Iran ‘indefinitely”

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Aug 13, 2026 · 202 words · By Alex Milan Durie; Ali Mustafa; Federica Marsi; Faisal Aziz Khan; Umut Uras; Mariamne Everett; Urooba Jamal; Tracy J Jawad; Mohammed R Mhawish

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[Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters] By Alex Milan Durie , Ali Mustafa , Federica Marsi , Faisal Aziz Khan , Umut Uras , Mariamne Everett , Urooba Jamal , Tracy J.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that People walk by a mural depicting Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on a street in Tehran, Iran, August 13, 2026?
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Claim 1: “People walk by a mural depicting Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on a street in Tehran, Iran, August 13, 2026.”

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Wikipedia entries ('Assassination of Ali Khamenei', 'Khamenei family', and 'Mojtaba Khamenei') explicitly confirm that Ali Khamenei was assassinated on February 28, 2026, and was succeeded by his son, Mojtaba Khamenei. Therefore, as of August 13, 2026, he is the late Supreme Leader.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, was assassinated in Tehran as part of a series of Israeli airstrikes aimed at high-ranking Iranian officials. Khamenei's death was confir…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Ali_Khamenei

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Khamenei family is an Iranian religious and political family that has ruled Iran as the state's supreme leader since Ali Khamenei was elected to the position as its second holder in 1989. After hi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamenei_family

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei (born 8 September 1969) is an Iranian Shia cleric and politician who has served as the third supreme leader of Iran since 2026. A member of the Khamenei family and the second…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojtaba_Khamenei

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Claim 2: “US says can maintain blockade on Iran ‘indefinitely””

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Multiple independent sources confirm the claim. Reuters reports that the US stated it could maintain a naval blockade of Iran indefinitely. This is further corroborated by Google News reports citing Hegseth stating the US Navy can maintain the blockade by rotating ships.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In 2025 and 2026, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Ali…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been at war with Iran and its regional allies. Hostilities broke out after US–Israeli airstrikes killed several Iranian officials, including S…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Relations between Iran and the United States began in the mid-19th century, when Iran was known to the Western world as Qajar Persia. While Persia was the object of British and Russian colonial intere…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–United_States_relations

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