Mojtaba Khamenei

Trump: 'I started Iran war, would be no Israel without me'

US President Donald Trump confirmed that he called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "f****ing crazy" during a call on Monday in an interview on Pod Force One released on Wednesday. 

Then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attends an October 7 remembrance event at the Trump National Doral Golf Club, October 7, 2024, in Doral, Florida; illustrative.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing conerning the fiscal year 2027 budget for the State Department, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 2, 2026.

Khamenei is increasingly engaged in Iranian gov., Tehran still has drone arsenal, Rubio says

US President Donald Trump speaks next to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, US, May 27, 2026.

Trump must break the IRGC’s empire, not refinance it - opinion

A screengrab from a video released by CENTCOM shows a flight deck crew member signaling an F‑35 jet on an aircraft carrier, in this image obtained from social media released on February 28, 2026

Trump: Hezbollah ceasefire reached, going silent may be good for Iran talks


Why is this Nowruz different from all other Nowruz? - analysis

This Nowruz, Iranians face a crossroads. With the regime weakened, will the Persian New Year mark a turning point in the struggle for freedom? The stakes are higher than ever.

Iranians watch fireworks during the Wednesday Fire feast, or Chaharshanbe Suri, held annually on the last Wednesday eve before the Spring holiday of Nowruz, in Tehran, on March 18, 2025.

Over 6,000 IRGC members killed, 15,000 wounded since the start of Operation Roaring Lion, IDF says

Israel is targeting "everything related to the regime's forces. There is simply in chaos in some places."

Smoke and flames rise at the site of airstrikes on an oil depot in Tehran on March 7, 2026.

US may hit Iran's Kharg Island again, Trump tells NBC News

Trump suggests more strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub, calls Khamenei’s survival uncertain, and dismisses current deal terms as insufficient.

US President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport on March 13, 2026 in West Palm Beach, Florida; illustrative.

Strait of Hormuz open to everyone but US, Israel, Iranian FM Araghchi says

Other ships are free to pass, although many prefer not to due to “security concerns,” which Araghchi claimed have nothing to do with Iran.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on the day he addresses a special session of the Conference on Disarmament at the United Nations, aside of US-Iran talks in Geneva, Switzerland, February 17, 2026.

US, Israel's chess match with Iran is entering its geopolitical endgame - opinion

How can the US deliver a decisive blow that weakens the regime while accelerating the possibility of internal change?

Mojtaba Khamenei, son of former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iran's new supreme leader wounded, likely disfigured, Hegseth says

"We know the new so-called not-so-supreme leader is wounded and likely disfigured... He's scared, he's injured, he's on the run, and he lacks legitimacy," US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth holds a briefing amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, at the Pentagon in Washington, March 2, 2026.

Middle Israel: Mojtaba Khamenei’s appointment shows Iran’s revolution is dead - opinion

The people who crowned Khamenei the Second installed as the leader of Iran a man who, besides being a religious lightweight and a political novice, is a professed enemy of the Iranian people.

Here, a large poster shows (from left) the first leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ruhollah Khomeini; the second leader, Ali Khamenei; and on the right, the new leader of the revolution, Mojtaba Khamenei.

Iranian military has been 'decimated,' Trump says, urging world to continue using Strait of Hormuz

Additionally, Trump said he believes Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is still alive "in some form," during an interview with FOX's Brian Kilmeade scheduled to air on Friday.

US President Donald Trump takes a question as he speaks during a press conference at Trump National Doral Miami in Miami, Florida, March 9, 2026.

WATCH: IDF strikes over 150 regime terror targets across central, western Iran

Over the past two weeks, the military has conducted hundreds of strike waves against the regime.

IDF jet prepares to take off, March 12, 2026.

Errors in Mojtaba Khamenei's first message dictated by IRGC raise questions about his condition

The message contained several typographical errors when published and was described by a knowledgeable source in Tehran as having been dictated by the IRGC and released under Mojtaba Khamenei's name

 State media in Iran published a written message from the new leader on Thursday evening after nearly two weeks without any message or sign of him. These outlets also appear to have used image-enhancement tools to make Mojtaba Khamenei’s face look more polished