Reports Claim Iran Leader In Coma: Iran’s Supreme Leader shared a photo of himself visiting an Iranian envoy on Sunday amid rumors that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is in a coma.
According to some recent media reports, Khamenei, 85, was in a coma and had secretly met with his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, 55, to choose him as his successor. The reports followed an October article in The New York Times describing Khamenei as “seriously ill.”
The image shared on Khamenei’s X account showed him in his office conversing with Mojtaba Amani, Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon.
“Ayatollah Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Revolution, met and talked with Mr Mojtaba Amani, the veteran ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Lebanon, at noon today, on the sidelines of his daily meetings,” he stated in Persian.
When pagers and walkie-talkies used by the Iran-backed Hezbollah organization exploded in Lebanon in September, Amani was one of around 3,000 people hurt. Iran and Hezbollah blamed Israel for the bombing, which also claimed the lives of at least 39 civilians.
According to an official statement, Amani gave him a report on his most recent health situation.
Following Iran’s launch of 180 missiles last month that targeted vital infrastructure in Israel, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered his first sermon in five years.
In his uncommon speech on October 5, he backed the Palestinian and Lebanese movements against Israel, saying that Israel “won’t last long.”
Khamenei defended Iranian missile strikes on Israel as a “public service” while speaking to tens of thousands of followers at a Tehran mosque.
Speaking while brandishing a rifle, the Iranian leader said Israel would not defeat Hezbollah or Hamas.
Iran backs Hezbollah and Hamas, two groups fighting Israeli forces on both its northern and southern fronts.
Khamenei defended Iranian missile strikes on Israel as a “public service” while speaking to tens of thousands of followers at a Tehran mosque.
