Mojtaba Khamenei using ‘bin Laden template’ to survive, learned from Abbottabad: analyst

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has spent astir 3 months successful hiding arsenic tensions with the U.S. escalate — a disappearance that counterterrorism analysts accidental mirrors the last years of al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden.

The examination comes amid a captious standoff betwixt Washington and Tehran that prompted President Donald Trump to intermission a planned onslaught connected May 19. On Wednesday, Trump told reporters helium was successful "no hurry."

Khamenei, meanwhile, appeared to stock 3 posts connected his authoritative X relationship connected May 18 but remains retired of nationalist view.

"For the archetypal clip successful the past of the Islamic Republic, the United States has done to Tehran what it spent 2 decades doing to al-Qaeda and ISIS," counterterrorism adept Dr. Omar Mohammed told Fox News Digital.

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is shown successful a representation image. (Fox News)

"The U.S. has driven its person into the aforesaid benignant of operational invisibility that bin Laden lived successful for 10 years successful Abbottabad," helium added.

"Both Mojtaba Khamenei and bin Laden inherited their presumption connected the backmost of an American operation, and some responded the aforesaid way: by ceasing to beryllium publicly," Mohammed said earlier adding that bin Laden "stopped releasing dated videos astir 2007 and confined himself to audio messages carried by hand."

Bin Laden founded al-Qaeda successful the precocious 1980s and masterminded the Sept. 11, 2001, violent attacks against the United States.

After the U.S. penetration of Afghanistan, bin Laden evaded seizure for a decennary by hiding wrong a fortified compound successful Abbottabad, Pakistan.

To debar Western physics surveillance, helium severed his integer footprint and relied exclusively connected a web of carnal couriers, said Mohammed, an adept with the Antisemitism Research Initiative astatine George Washington University’s Program connected Extremism.

U.S. quality yet tracked 1 of those couriers to the compound, culminating successful the 2011 Navy SEAL raid that killed the al Qaeda leader.

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Portrait of erstwhile al-Qaeda person Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden was killed successful 2011 successful a daring SEAL Team 6 raid successful Pakistan. (Photo by Stephane Ruet/Sygma via Getty Images)

"Bin Laden survived with nary cables retired of the Abbottabad compound. Communications were carried by manus by 2 trusted couriers, the Kuwaiti brothers," Mohammed said.

"Bin Laden stayed hidden for the remainder of his beingness due to the fact that the infinitesimal helium surfaced was the infinitesimal helium died. Mojtaba’s incentives constituent the aforesaid way. Mojtaba Khamenei won’t emerge," helium said.

"The Abbottabad lesson, which Tehran volition person studied closely, is that the safest hiding spot is not a cave successful Tora Bora but a walled compound successful a garrison town," Mohammed added, recalling however U.S. forces targeted bin Laden successful the cave analyzable earlier helium escaped.

Bin Laden besides lived astir a mile from Pakistan’s apical subject academy, hiding successful plain show down precocious factual walls and barbed wire, Mohammed noted.

"The logical Iranian equivalents are hardened sites nether oregon alongside IRGC facilities," Mohammed added, referring to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and imaginable locations wherever Khamenei could be.

As antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, 1 of Khamenei’s fewer caller communications was an X station declaring a "holy war," framing the geopolitical clash arsenic a mandatory spiritual obligation.

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President Donald Trump said, "I got him earlier helium got me" aft Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and respective apical leaders were killed successful an Israeli onslaught successful Tehran during the U.S.-Israeli subject violative called Operation Epic Fury. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images; Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"This is simply a spiritual person calling for ineffable warfare against America and the Jews from an undisclosed determination due to the fact that his enemies person publically vowed to termination him connected sight," Mohammed said, describing the communicative arsenic "the bin Laden template, astir enactment for line."

Mohammed besides suggested Khamenei’s retreat into the shadows marks a watershed infinitesimal for Washington and the aboriginal of the Iranian regime.

His predecessor and father, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed Feb. 28 successful a targeted U.S.-Israeli airstrike successful Tehran during Operation Epic Fury.

"This authorities that for 47 years projected its powerfulness done a azygous disposable Supreme Leader astatine the Friday supplication pulpit tin nary longer nutrient that fig connected demand," helium said, calling it a "strategic milestone."

"Predecessors killed by U.S. strikes and successors who cannot amusement their faces. Real powerfulness exercised by a information apparatus alternatively than by the nominal figurehead."

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"Now 1 broadside is announcing operations connected 3 continents done its president; the different is governed connected insubstantial by a antheral whose ain colonisation is uncertain wherever helium is oregon what authorities helium is in," Mohammed said.

"The opposition is besides astir the optics of enactment during this war," helium added.