File image of Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. Photo: Majid Khahi/ISNA/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters
Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was injured in an air strike that killed his father at the start of the U.S. and Israel’s attack on the country, the Iranian ambassador to Cyprus told The Guardian newspaper on Wednesday (March 11, 2026).
“He was also there and he was injured in that bombardment but I haven’t seen that reflected in the foreign news,” Ambassador Alireza Salarian told the London-based newspaper.
Iran-Israel war updates on March 11, 2026
“I have heard that he was injured in his legs and hand and arm… I think he is in the hospital because he is injured.”
The daytime air strike on the first day of the war on February 28 on a compound in Tehran killed his father, former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as his mother and wife.
Published – March 11, 2026 07:50 pm IST
