Israel believes Iran’s new leader was lightly wounded in attacks, senior official says

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

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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.”

Earlier on Wednesday, the son of the Iranian president said that Khamenei is “safe and sound” despite reports of an injury during the war with Israel and the United States,

“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.

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