Iran’s New Leader Is Wounded, Likely Disfigured, Hegseth Says
‘Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of voice recorders. Why a written statement?’ Hegseth said.
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.
