Israel suspects Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was wounded in the opening salvo of the war, and he has not appeared in public since then.

New supreme leader receives support from Oman, Iraq, Yemen's Houthis, while the US and Israel make threats.

In a report published on Wednesday, the 'New York Times,' quoting three unnamed Iranian officials, said that Mojtaba Khamenei had suffered injuries.