TEHRAN: Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is “safe and healthy” despite reports of an injury during the war with Israel and the United States, the Iranian president’s son said on Wednesday.
“I heard the news that Mr. Mojtaba Khamenei had been injured. I asked some friends who had connections.
They told me that, thank God, he is safe and sound,” Yousef Pezeshkian, who is also a government adviser, said in a post on his Telegram channel.
State television had called Khamenei a “wounded veteran of the Ramadan war” but never specified his injury.
The new supreme leader is the son and successor of the country’s former ruler, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was a martyr in the US-Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28 that sparked a war across the Middle East.
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, a low-key figure who has rarely appeared in public or spoken at official events, has yet to address the nation or issue a written statement since he was declared supreme leader on Sunday.
In a report on Wednesday, The New York Times Citing three unnamed Iranian officials, they said Khamenei “had suffered injuries, including to his legs, but was alert and sheltered in a highly secure location with limited communication.”
