Iran's new leader was lightly wounded in attacks, senior Israeli official says

Iran's new supreme leader, ⁠Mojtaba Khamenei, was allegedly lightly ‌wounded in ​the Israeli-US joint air war against Iran, as per Israel's intelligence assessment. This is the reason why he has ​not been ⁠seen in public, a senior Israeli official told agencies.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards forced through ⁠the ‌choice of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme ‌leader, seeing him as ⁠a more pliant version of his father who ‌would back their ‌hardline policies.

Khamenei's selection may add ‌up to a ‌more aggressive stance abroad and sterner internal repression, said three senior Iranian sources, ⁠a ⁠reformist former official and another insider.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said last week that any leader appointed by the current Iranian ​leadership would "be an unequivocal target ​for elimination."

(With Reuters inputs)