Why 'Healthy' Mojtaba Khamenei Can't Appear In Public, Reveals Iran Diplomat

Just last week Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, held a 7-hour meeting with the country's president, representative of the supreme leader and senior diplomat Abdul Majid Hakeem Elahi told NDTV, clearing the air around the top leader's health.

The absence of Mojtaba Khamenei from the funeral ceremonies of Ali Khamenei, his father, that culminated in July raised questions about his health and fear of assassination.

Ali Khamenei was killed on February 28 in an airstrike on the first day of the US-Israeli war with Iran. There has been no sign of Mojtaba Khamenei, who was appointed supreme leader shortly after his father's killing and has only communicated via written statements since, with no public appearances. He is said to have been wounded in the February 28 strikes.

"He is benefiting from very good health and he's working very nicely. Even our president mentioned that last week he had a 7-hour meeting with him. Also the Speaker of our Parliament will come here day after tomorrow. He also said yesterday that he mentioned he met him for so many hours. I have some friends who met him and they assure me and mention that he's very, very, very healthy and he's doing his job very nicely," Abdul Majid Hakeem Elahi said.