{"id":53609,"date":"2026-08-25T14:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=53609"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:17:42","slug":"iranian-media-releases-undated-video-of-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-reports-al-arabiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/iranian-media-releases-undated-video-of-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei-reports-al-arabiya\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian media releases undated video of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, reports Al Arabiya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>As mystery continues to shroud the appearance of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Al Arabiya reported that Iran&#8217;s Fars News released archival footage of the Iranian Supreme Leader.<br \/>\nAccording to Al Arabiya, the footage was reportedly filmed before Khamenei became the Supreme Leader.<\/p>\n<p>He was seen surrounded by a group of people who offered prayers before beginning their discussions. Notably, this is the second time in August that a video of Khamenei has been released by Iranian media.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in August, days after Israeli media claimed that Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader was in critical condition and had been rushed to a hospital, Iran&#8217;s semi-official Mehr News agency released an undated video showing Mojtaba Khamenei appearing to be in good health.<\/p>\n<p>The video of Mojtaba Khamenei was published for the first time by Mehr, a semi-official news agency sponsored by the government of Iran and run by the Iranian government&#8217;s Islamic Development Organisation, as an effort to negate mounting speculation over Khamenei&#8217;s health and whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Israeli media reports had claimed that Khamenei was in an &#8220;extremely critical condition&#8221;. Channel 14, citing sources inside Iran, and an earlier report by The Jerusalem Post, quoting IranWire and sources close to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian&#8217;s administration, reported that concerns over his health were circulating within Iran&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly thereafter, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has stated that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is &#8220;completely healthy&#8221;, dismissing speculations regarding his physical condition, according to a report by the ISNA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Someone who can sit and discuss for seven to eight hours cannot have any health problems,&#8221; the President said, noting that he had held a &#8220;very good&#8221; meeting with Khamenei earlier in August.<br \/>\nMojtaba Khamenei assumed the position of Supreme Leader after his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in joint US-Israeli military strikes on February 28. Since assuming the role, Mojtaba Khamenei has not made any public appearances, communicating exclusively through written statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mystery continues to shroud the appearance of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Al Arabiya reported that Iran&#8217;s Fars News released archival footage of the Iranian Supreme Leader. According to Al Arabiya, the footage was reportedly filmed before Khamenei became the Supreme Leader. He was seen surrounded by a group of people who offered prayers before beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53611,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53609\/revisions\/53611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}