TEHRAN: Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is “safe and sound” despite reports of an injury sustained during the war with Israel and the United States, the Iranian president’s son said on Wednesday.
“I learned that Mr. Mojtaba Khamenei had been injured. I asked friends who had connections.
They told me that, thank God, he was safe and sound,” Yousef Pezeshkian, who is also a government advisor, said in a message 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 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s longtime leader, who was martyred in U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, which sparked a war in 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 released Wednesday, The New York Times Citing three unnamed Iranian officials, they said Khamenei “was injured, including in his legs, but was alert and took refuge in a highly secure location with limited communications.”
