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Monday, March 9, 2026
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Monday, March 9, 2026
Iran state TV confirms new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was wounded
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This handout picture taken in Tehran on October 30, 2024, shows Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran's slain supreme leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Office of Supreme Leader / AFP)
As Iranian state television reports on the ascension of Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader, it refers to him as being wounded in the war.
The anchors read reports describing him as “janbaz,” or wounded by the enemy, in the “Ramadan war,” which is how media in Iran refer to the current conflict.
It does not elaborate. However, Khamenei’s father and his wife were killed in the February 28 Israeli airstrike in Tehran at the start of the war.
Khamenei has yet to be seen since the war began. He was announced as Iran’s new supreme leader overnight.
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