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Mojtaba Khamenei 'pulled from rubble' after hospital struck in US-Israeli strikes: report

Tehran, Sep 27 (UNI) Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was “pulled from the rubble” of a Tehran hospital after the US and Israel launched air strikes at the medical facility where he had been taken following earlier attacks, the New York Post reported.
The report cited Mohsen Heydari, a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, who made the revelation in an interview with Qatari television network Al Araby.
Heydari said Khamenei survived a second strike in February after the initial attack targeting his father nearly killed him. The February 28 strike hit Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's Tehran compound, killing the 86-year-old supreme leader along with several senior figures.
“Even after he had been wounded and taken to the hospital, three hospitals in Tehran were bombed,” Heydari said, according to the New York Post.
“Mojtaba Khamenei was in the third hospital and was pulled from the rubble,” he added.
The 56-year-old Iranian leader subsequently disappeared to an undisclosed location and has not been seen or heard from publicly since.
Heydari also spoke about the circumstances surrounding Mojtaba Khamenei’s selection as Iran’s supreme leader on March 8, saying he apparently did not know that he had been chosen until the announcement was broadcast on Iranian state television.
The Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for selecting Iran's supreme leader, was targeted — its Qom Secretariat was bombed, killing eight people and destroying records related to choosing a new leader.
It is worth mentioning that Khamenei had secured 50 of 59 votes cast, with eight going to Ayatollah Alireza Arafi and one abstention.
“Given the enemy’s position, we will choose and elect no one as leader and supreme guide of the Islamic Republic except Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei,” Heydari recalled saying, according to the report.
“We obtained information that Mojtaba Khamenei was healthy and able to lead, and we determined that he met the requirements of religious qualification, justice and competence to manage the country,” he said.
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