TEHRAN: Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is “safe and well” despite reports of an injury during the war with Israel and the United States, the son of the Iranian president said on Wednesday.
“I heard news that Mr. Mojtaba Khamenei had been injured. I have asked some friends who had connections.
They told me that thank God he is safe,” 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 longtime ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was martyred in the February 28 US-Israeli attack on Iran 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 being declared supreme leader on Sunday.
In a Wednesday report, New York Times citing three unnamed Iranian officials as saying that Khamenei “suffered injuries, including to his legs, but was alert and sheltered in a very secure location with limited communications”.
