Explore the challenges of Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's newly appointed Supreme Leader, amid unprecedented turmoil and conflict.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has issued his first statement since his appointment as the war with the United States and Israel rages.

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