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Israel believes Iran’s new leader was lightly wounded in attacks, senior official says
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsrael’s intelligence assessment is that Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was lightly wounded in Israeli-US strikes against Iran and that is why he has not been seen in public, a senior Israeli official tells Reuters.
The New York Times reported today that Khamenei was wounded in his legs on the first day of the war, citing Israeli and Iranian officials. The Iranian president’s son later said he was “safe and sound.”
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