The Iranian regime released on Thursday (19) the first video of the country’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, since he was chosen for the position, but the lack of information in the images has generated speculation that it is a pre-war recording.
In the video, released by state broadcaster IRIB, Khamenei appears sitting on a stage, speaking to an audience at an undisclosed location and date.
“Published for the first time. A religious science teaching video by Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei,” IRIB reported on social media.
Mojtaba Khamenei was chosen on March 8 to replace his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an attack by the United States and Israel on the first day of the current war in the Middle East, on February 28.
On March 12, the new leader released his first message, which was read on Iranian state television, without the ayatollah appearing. This increased speculation that Khamenei had been seriously injured in the attack that killed his father or that he was even dead – US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that Mojtaba was “disfigured”.
In the comments on the message now released, in which the ayatollah appears uninjured, X users expressed skepticism about the Iranian regime’s attempt to prove that the leader is alive by releasing the new video.
One wrote that “technically, they are not lying,” as “it is plausible that this video is being published for the first time, which still does not prove that it was not recorded before the war.”
Another wrote that the video is “from before the war. Now it [Mojtaba Khamenei] He’s dead.” “That’s from the time he was alive. Publish the current version of it, [uma imagem] cardboard, since he’s dead!” added another user.
