Overview
- The New York Times reported Thursday that Mojtaba Khamenei was badly hurt in the February 28 attack yet remains mentally clear, citing four Iranian officials.
- Those officials say he has temporarily handed decision-making to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps generals, a force that controls powerful military and economic networks.
- They describe three surgeries on a leg with a prosthesis pending, hand surgery with slow recovery, and severe burns to his face and lips that make speech hard.
- Access to him is tightly restricted, with sources saying he lives in hiding, sends only handwritten notes, and receives medical care from President Masoud Pezeshkian, a trained heart surgeon.
- Appointed in early March after his father's death, he has not appeared in public or on state media, which has fueled questions about who directs Iran's war policy.