A big revelation has come to light amid the Iran-America-Israel war. The New York Times has reported that Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was injured on the first day of the war i.e. 28 February 2026. His legs are injured, but the complete details and severity of the injury are not yet clear. Iranian and Israeli officials have confirmed this.
Injured Mujtaba hiding in high-secure place
According to the NYT report, as soon as the war started, US-Israel carried out an airstrike on the Supreme Leader’s compound in Tehran. Mujtaba’s father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in this. His mother, wife, a son and several top defense officials were also killed in the same attack. Mujtaba Khamenei was also injured in the same attack, but survived and is now hiding in a high-secure location, where communication is very limited.
Three Iranian officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that in the last two days they received information from upper levels that Mojtaba’s legs were injured, but he was conscious. Two Israeli military officials also confirmed that intelligence revealed that Mojtaba was injured in his legs on February 28. He got this information even before the new leader was elected.
Iranian media called Mujtaba a ‘warlord’
Mujtaba Khamenei was elected Supreme Leader after his father’s death i.e. on March 8. But since then he was neither seen in the video, nor came in public nor gave any written statement. Iranian state TV and news agency IRNA have called him a ‘wounded war veteran’. Imdaad, a government charity committee, also congratulated him by calling him ‘Jangbaaz Jang’.
Big banners and murals with Mujtaba’s pictures put up in Tehran
When Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baqaei was asked whether Mujtaba was now playing the role of commander-in-chief, he did not give a direct answer. He simply said, ‘Those who wanted to receive the message have received it.’ Mujtaba Khamenei has long had deep relations with the IRGC. He used to coordinate security and military affairs in his father’s office, but very little is known about his personality and plans. He was rarely seen in public. Now large banners and murals with his photographs have been put up in Tehran, where his father is shown handing over the Iranian flag to him.
