Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, visits Hezbollah's office in Tehran, Iran, on Oct. 1, 2024. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA/Handout via Reuters
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on March 13 that Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is “wounded and likely disfigured.”
“He put out a statement yesterday, a weak one, actually, but there was no voice, and there was no video. It was a written statement,” Hegseth said at a Pentagon press briefing.
Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
