Iran’s new chief ‘secretly flown to Moscow for surgery’ after being injured in drone strike
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Khamenei has reportedly been serious injured (Image: KHAMENEI.IR/AFP via Getty Images)
Iran’s new leader has been reportedly been seriously injured in a drone strike and is now being personally flown to Moscow for leg surgery, sources claim.
The claim comes form the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida who have stated Khamenei has been snuck out of Iran for top secret surgery. The paper reports the Ayatollah had a “successful” operation at one of Putin’s presidential palaces.
While the report is unconfirmed the newspaper Al-Jarida has stated the intel came form a “high-ranking source close to the new Iranian Supreme Leader”. The source also claimed the Ayatollah was injured in operation Epic Fury. It has been reported Putin proposed treating the new dictator on Thursday leading to Iran’s supreme leader to be transferred to Russia later that evening.
The development comes after claims the new Iranian leader was placed in charge despite suffering serious liver damage in an air attack. A source speaking to the Sun previously claimed the new Ayatollah was in intensive care following the strike.
The source stated: “One or two of his legs have been cut off. His liver or stomach has also ruptured. He is apparently in a coma as well.” The source also claimed the new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei lost his leg in the attack.
Fears on if the Ayatollah is alive have been sparked after Iran’s foreign minister has provided an update on the wellbeing of the new Supreme Leader following Donald Trump’s suggestion that he may be deceased. Mojtaba Khamenei succeeded his father, who was killed in Israeli-US strikes at the onset of the conflict, but he has not been seen since.
“I don’t know if he’s even alive. So far, nobody’s been able to show him,” Trump stated. “I’m hearing he’s not alive, and if he is, he should do something very smart for his country, and that’s surrender”. However, Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has now asserted: “The Leader of the Revolution is in complete health and is fully managing the situation.”
Mojtaba Khamenei issued his first statement on the war last Thursday, but he did not appear on camera and the speech was delivered by a news anchor. He did not disclose his condition or reveal his location in the speech, reports the Mirror.
This has sparked considerable discussion regarding his health, and an Israeli assessment suggested he was injured in the initial onslaught of the war which claimed the lives of other family members including his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other figures within the Iranian regime.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth declared on Friday that Mojtaba Khamenei was “wounded and likely disfigured”.
