The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is in good health, his Deputy Representative in India, Dr Mohammad Hossein Ziyaeenia, said on Tuesday, rejecting the rumors surrounding the health of the Islamic Republic’s leader.
“The situation of our Supreme Leader, Hazrat Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Khamenei, is, thanks to God, good. According to the communication that we had a couple of days ago, he is in a good situation, he’s fine,” Ziyaeenia said, according to ANI.
“All these rumours that his health is not in a good situation and he has some problems – these are not authentic, and he is fine,” he added.
His remarks came days after New York Times reported that the Iranian Supreme Leader sustained severe injuries during the February 28 attacks by the US and Israel on the compound of his father and former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The report further claimed that Mojtaba is awaiting face surgery and a prosthetic leg. It further noted that due to the injuries, the new Ayatollah has remained out of public view with access to him highly restricted.
As per the report, only a handful of close circle – primarily medical attendants – are allowed near him.
His Deputy Representative in India also reiterated Iran’s position on the West Asia conflict, saying Tehran didn’t start the war with the US and Israel but will end it.
“From the very beginning of the war, we stated the famous sentence from our late Supreme Leader Hazrat Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei: ‘Americans, the enemies, started this war, but we are the ones who will finish this war; we will decide how this war will finish,'” he said.
He further noted that people of Iran are united and reports about internal tensions in the Iranian leadership are being spread by those who are unaware of the government system in his country and those trying to hide the truth from the audience”.
“This question has been raised by the Western media. There are two reasons for this question. Number one is not being aware of the government system in Iran. Number two, trying to hide the truth from the audience. The Iranian government system is not dependent on a single person because this is a republic… So it’s not that there is a single figure in command in Iran and the country would collapse without him. There is a hierarchy there,” he added.