{"id":55006,"date":"2026-03-12T12:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=55006"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:47:17","slug":"iran-confirms-new-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-was-injured-and-still-recovering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=55006","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Iran confirms new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei  was injured and still recovering<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55007\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-12-at-12.46.21-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-12-at-12.46.21-PM.png 575w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-12-at-12.46.21-PM-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Iran has confirmed that newly appointed Supreme Leader\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/634202-israel-military-khamenei-successor-iran\/\">Mojtaba Khamenei\u00a0<\/a>was injured but is recovering.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe\u2019s injured but fine,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei told Italy\u2019s Corriere Della Sera on Thursday. Earlier reports suggested Khamenei was wounded in the initial US-Israeli strikes that killed his father,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/634178-who-might-be-irans-next-supreme-leader\/\">Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a>, which may explain why he has yet to appear publicly or on video since assuming the top post.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/634559-us-israel-iran-war-updates\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/634559-us-israel-iran-war-updates\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}