Typos

Daily Mail: Mojtaba Khamenei Flown to Moscow for Surgery

Published March 15, 2026, 20:11
Daily Mail: Mojtaba Khamenei Flown to Moscow for Surgery

According to Kuwaiti media reports cited by the British newspaper Daily Mail, the injured new Supreme Leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, was urgently flown to Moscow for emergency foot surgery. Khamenei, 56, succeeded his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after his assassination on February 28th. Reports indicate that Khamenei was in a coma at Sina University Hospital in Tehran following an airstrike targeting Iranian leadership. His transfer to Russia for surgery was allegedly offered personally by Putin. The mission to transport Khamenei to Russia was highly secretive, involving the use of a Russian military aircraft and his surgery taking place at one of Putin's presidential palaces. The surgery was described as successful. The information comes from a source close to the new Supreme Leader of Iran and remains unconfirmed.