Well, that didn’t take long. Mojtaba Khamenei has risen to the appointment of Iran Supreme Leader, as the country’s national television news service confirmed Monday, however it has since emerged the man following his father into the post has been wounded in an unspecified incident at a time and place unknown.
AP reports television news anchors referred to the mid-level Shiite cleric as “janbaz,” or wounded by the enemy, in the “Ramadan war,” which is how media in Iranian regime refers to the current conflict.
It does not elaborate on the mystery injury. However, Khamenei’s father and his wife were killed in the February 28 Israeli airstrike in Tehran that began the fight for freedom from the brutal Islamic dictatorship.
The younger Khamenei has yet to be seen since the conflict began. Indeed he has barely been seen in his entire life.
Mojtaba Khamenei has never held government office, nor given public speeches or interviews, and only a limited number of photos and videos of him have ever been published.
Even so he was announced as Iran’s new supreme leader overnight after a week of speculation, as Breitbart News reported, an awkward moment as the Islamic Republic has long criticized hereditary rule and cast itself as a more just alternative.
