The Times: Iran's New Leader Is In A Coma

• 7.04.2026, 14:54

Khamenei's son cannot run the country.

Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who replaced his dead father Ali Khamenei, was seriously wounded in US and Israeli strikes and is now in a coma, so he cannot govern the country. About it writes The Times with reference to a report prepared by the US and Israeli intelligence. According to the publication, Mojtaba Khamenei is now undergoing treatment in Qom, which is a holy city for Shiites.

After being wounded, he has still not regained consciousness. Doctors assess his health condition as very serious. Because of the injury, Mojtaba is not running the country, although he has been given the position of Iran's Supreme Leader. It became known that Mojtaba Khamenei was elected the new Supreme Leader of Iran in the second half of March this year.

Mojtaba was elected to this post instead of his father Ali Khamenei, who died at the beginning of a new war in the Middle East as a result of a U.S.-Israeli air strike. But the new Iranian Supreme Leader has yet to make a single public appearance. This has given the media reason to say that Mojtaba is seriously injured.