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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has no “specific ongoing health issues” and is medically healthy, President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview with CBS News aired on Sunday.
Pezeshkian, who said he is a physician, rejected claims that Khamenei had suffered debilitating injuries during the opening phase of the war with Iran earlier this year.
“From a medical standpoint, he’s completely healthy,” Pezeshkian said, according to CBS News.
What Iran’s president said about Khamenei’s condition
Pezeshkian said he had met Khamenei twice, with their most recent meeting lasting more than seven hours. He said the supreme leader had the physical endurance to manage the extended meeting and currently had no medical impairments.
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei was selected on March 8 to succeed his late father, the long-serving Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Claims about injuries
Khamenei’s physical condition has attracted intense international speculation after the United States said he was wounded during opening strikes of the war on February 28.
US President Donald Trump recently said the Iranian leader was “very seriously wounded” on the left side of his body, while adding that he did not believe the senior cleric was dead.
Iran’s decision-making mechanism
Asked about Iran’s decision-making, Pezeshkian said a six-member transitional council currently directs the process through collective consultations.
He said the council includes representatives of the armed forces, parliament and state institutions.
