Summary
- It was reported that Mojtaba Khamenei, long cited as a leading contender to become Iran’s next supreme leader, is alive.
- Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency said it had confirmed that Mojtaba Khamenei survived U.S.-Israeli airstrikes.
- Speculation that he had died spread after multiple family members were killed in the airstrikes, but Mehr reported that he is alive.
Reports have emerged that Mojtaba Khamenei—son of Iran’s supreme leader, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and long cited as a leading contender to succeed him—is alive.
According to a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Walter Bloomberg on the 3rd, Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency confirmed that Mojtaba Khamenei survived U.S.-Israeli airstrikes.
Speculation that he had been killed spread after multiple family members died in the strikes, but Mehr reported that he is alive.
Minseung Kang
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