Iran’s new Supreme Leader is reportedly in a coma.
Mojtaba Khamenei has lost at least one leg and has also suffered serious stomach or liver damage after being seriously injured in air strikes.
According to the UK Sun and Daily Mail, the new leader is currently under intensive care at the Sina University Hospital in the city’s historic quarter. Security forces have supposedly sealed off a section of the building.
A source, who does not want to be named out of fear for his life, said the new Supreme Leader is under the care of Mohammad Reza Zafargjani, Iran’s Minister of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education, and one of the country’s top trauma surgeons.
Mr. Zafargjani’s Persian Wikipedia page details eight years of experience operating in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. The regime’s most trusted doctor was also injured by chemical weapons himself in the war.
He is believed to be assisted by another senior surgeon, Dr. Mohammad Marashi, the brother of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s wife and a trusted figure in the Islamic regime.
The wounded Supreme Leader is also reported to have received a visit from the current Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, two days ago. The president is believed to be being fully briefed on Khamenei’s condition.
The source told the Sun through secret messages sent to an exiled dissident based in London: ‘One or two of his legs have been cut off. His liver or stomach has also ruptured. He is apparently in a coma as well.’
While the new Supreme Leader has also not been seen for weeks, Iran is being run by regional commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who are believed to be under orders to fight on indefinitely.
