After his meeting with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the Ayatollah was “completely healthy”, adding that both had held a seven-hour discussion.
Purported visuals came after reports on Supreme Leader’s health
However, Mojtaba has released written statements from time-to-time which have been read out on state television. Mojtaba’s video released by Mehr gained traction on social media and was widely shared. “From the aspect of health, he is completely healthy. He has not appeared in public since the attack and being named the Supreme Leader, including in his father’s funeral held last month. However, several claimed the video was old. It was first circulating in March.”
Mojtaba became Iran’s Supreme Leader after his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in joint strikes by the United States and Israel on February 28 which triggered the ongoing war. US President Donald Trump had, last month, claimed the Supreme Leader was “90 per cent gone.
I mean, someone who can sit and debate with us for seven, eight hours cannot have any health problems,” Pezeshkian said. Pezeshkian said the meeting with Mojtaba was “good”, saying they had “talked about everything. “We talked about all the problems, we shared our concerns,” the Iranian President said. Apart from Israeli reports, IranWire, citing sources close to President Masoud Pezeshkian’s administration, alsoreported that rumours about Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei being in an “extremely critical condition” were circulating at the highest levels of the Iranian regime. Mojtaba was injured and got potentially disfigured in the same strikes which led to his father’s death, and was undergoing treatment, according to several earlier reports. However, he has been communicating with senior officials of the Islamic Republic through a slow network of intermediaries to avoid being targeted, according to reports. “The son is 90% gone,” Trump was heard saying in a viral clip. “Jason Brodsky, policy director at ‘United Against Nuclear Iran’ organisation, according to his X account, said, “This footage is old, from before the war.
