Rubio says Iran's Khamenei alive and 'increasingly engaging'
An Iranian man rides his motorbike past a billboard bearing the images of the late founder of the Islamic Revolution supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L), the late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei (R), and his son the current supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei (C), erected along a street in Tehran on May 28, 2026. (AFP)
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who was wounded in U.S.-Israeli attacks and has not been seen in public since assuming office, is alive and increasingly active.
"I think there are indications out there that he is increasingly engaging at some level," Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, succeeded his father Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the first wave of U.S.-Israeli strikes that launched the war on February 28.
