According to the report, he suffered a leg injury, while his wife, Zahra Haddad-Adel, and their son were killed instantly. Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader, survived the February 28

"I think that the new leadership under Mojtaba might be willing to take more risks," a former Israeli official told Newsweek.

The weeklong fight over Iran’s next leader pitted the Revolutionary Guards against moderates. The generals won, but only over spirited resistance.

President Donald Trump said last week that Mojtaba Khamenei would be "unacceptable," and Israel has vowed to target whoever was made Iran's new highest authority.

Iran’s new supreme leader survived US and Israeli air strikes because he stepped outside for a walk in his garden minutes before his home was hit by missiles.

The shocking claim was described to The Post by two intelligence community officials and a third person close to the Trump administration.

DUBAI, March 16 (Reuters) - The Israeli military said on Monday it had destroyed a plane used by Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at Tehran's Mehrabad airport overnight. It said the aircraft had been used by senior Iranian officials and military figures to travel domestically and internationally and coordinate with allied countries.

According to the report, rumours about Mojtaba Khamenei’s sexuality had circulated inside Iran since at least the May 2024 helicopter crash that killed then-president Ebrahim Raisi, who had been widely viewed as the elder Khamenei’s preferred successor.