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Iran’s new supreme chief Mojtaba Khamenei is severely disfigured after struggling leg and face accidents because of joint U.S.-Israel airstrikes on Tehran in February, Reuters reported Saturday.
Khamenei is recovering after incurring the accidents within the February 28 airstrikes that killed his father, former supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei. He has not been seen publicly since being hospitalized.
Regardless of the accidents, Khamenei allegedly stays “mentally sharp,” Reuters reported, citing a trio of nameless sources inside his interior circle. The brand new supreme chief is in communication with the Iranian delegation in Pakistan for peace talks with a U.S. delegation led by Vice President JD Vance.
The Reuters report corroborates an earlier assertion from Secretary of Battle Pete Hegseth, who informed reporters on March 13 that Khamenei was “doubtless disfigured.”
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Vice President JD Vance walks with Pakistan’s Chief of Protection Forces Subject Marshal Asim Munir, Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, U.S. Embassy Cost d’Affaires Natalie A. Baker, and Inside Minister Mohsin Raza Naqvi after arriving for talks with Iranian officers in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 11, 2026. (Jacquelyn Martin/Reuters)
He then reiterated the declare in a Thursday press conference whereas outlining the U.S. army’s achievements in Iran.
“Their high management was systematically eradicated, their earlier Iranian supreme chief useless, the supreme nationwide safety council secretary useless, the supreme chief workplace advisor useless, the supreme chief army workplace chief useless, the protection minister now not with us, the IRGC commander useless, the armed forces normal employees commander useless, the intelligence minister useless, the IRGC navy commander now not right here, the IRGC Intel chief dead,” Hegseth listed.
Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media throughout a press briefing on the Pentagon in Washington, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photograph/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
“I disregarded a bunch, and I might go on and on and on, to incorporate the brand new — so-called new supreme chief, wounded and disfigured. This new regime was out of choices and out of time, so that they minimize a deal.”
NEW IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER ‘LIKELY DISFIGURED,’ HEGSETH SAYS
Mojtaba Khamenei, the brand new supreme chief of Iran and second son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a gathering in Tehran, Iran, on Oct. 13, 2024. (Hamed Jafarnejad/ISNA/WANA/Reuters)
Regardless of his weakened situation, Khamenei vowed to place up resistance in a defiant written assertion Thursday.
“Iran isn’t in search of warfare however is not going to forfeit its rights and considers all resistance fronts as a unified entity,” the assertion learn.
Hegseth dismissed the assertion as “weak” in his March press convention.
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“It was a written assertion. Iran has loads of cameras and loads of voice recorders. Why a written assertion?” Hegseth requested. “I believe you realize why. His father, useless. He is scared, he is injured, he is on the run and he lacks legitimacy. It is a mess for them. Who’s in cost? Iran could not even know.”
Sources reportedly informed Reuters that Khamenei might enter the general public highlight in a month or two, however provided that “his well being and the safety scenario allowed.
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Whereas many publicly query the place and after we might even see the supreme chief once more, Iranian hardliners stress the significance of him retaining a low-profile.
“Why ought to he seem in public? To turn out to be a goal for these criminals?” an Iranian militiaman requested Reuters in a textual content message.
