Iran’s New Leader Is Wounded, Likely Disfigured, Hegseth Says

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on March 13 that Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is “wounded and likely disfigured.” “He put out a statement yesterday, a weak one, actually, but there was no voice, and there was no video. It was a written statement,” Hegseth said at a Pentagon press briefing. Hegseth questioned the decision to release a written message rather than an audio or video address. “Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of voice recorders. Why a written statement? I think you know why,” he said. “His father is dead, he’s scared, he’s injured, he’s on the run, and he lacks legitimacy.”...