New Iranian leader was wounded early in the war, Iranian and Israeli officials sayA crowd, holding images of the two, gathers to celebrate Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the recently killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as his father's successor at Enghelab Square in Tehran, Iran, on Monday. The Israeli officials spoke on condition of anonymity. (Photo: New York Times)One hint of Mojtaba Khamenei’s condition has been references on state television and the state news agency IRNA, which called him the “wounded war veteran” supreme leader. Iranian officials said they believed that the target of the strikes was Khamenei but that he was not there. Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of late Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran, on Oct 13, 2024.

Source: Bangkok Post March 11, 2026 15:47 UTC