Mojtaba Khamenei 'safe and sound' despite war injury reports: president's son

TEHRAN: Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is “safe and sound” despite reports of an injury during the war with Israel and the United States, said the son of the Iranian president 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 and sound,” said Yousef Pezeshkian, who is also a government adviser, in a post on his Telegram channel.

State television had called Khamenei a “wounded veteran of the Ramadan war” but never specified his injury.

Israel’s intelligence assessment is that Iran’s ‌new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was lightly wounded in the Israeli-U.S. joint air war against Iran and that is why he has not been ⁠seen in public, a senior Israeli official told Reuters news agency.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards forced through the choice of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader, seeing him as a more pliant version of his father who would back ‌their policies.

Khamenei’s selection may add up to a more aggressive stance abroad and sterner internal repression, said three ⁠senior Iranian sources, a reformist former official and another insider.

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Israeli Defense Minister Israel ⁠Katz said last week that any leader appointed by the current Iranian leadership ⁠would “be an unequivocal target for elimination.”