Hyderabad, March 30 -- The United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the status of Iran's new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, remains unclear, uncertain who is in control.

"We don't even know he's in power. I know they say he's in power. No one has seen him. No one has heard from him. It's very opaque right now. It's not quite clear how decisions are being made inside of Iran," Rubio said in an interview with Al Jazeera.

He expressed confidence that it is a matter of weeks for the war to end, claiming most of Iran's defence and infrastructure is destroyed.

"We are well on our way to destroying the majority of their arms factories, and we're well on our way to significantly degrading their missile launchers. Whe...