Iran airs rare clip of supreme leader — but here’s why it does nothing to dispel dire health rumors

NY Post ^ | 8/09/26 | Ronny Reyes

[Libloather]

Iran released a rare video Sunday of its supreme leader appearing in prime condition amid his long absence from the public eye and swirling reports of deteriorating health.

The country’s semi-official Mehr News Agency flaunted video of Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, sitting in a circle and speaking with a group of men, with no context of when or where the scene took place.

Khamenei was notably free of any of the horrific injuries he was believed to have suffered in the initial airstrikes of the war that killed his father, suggesting the video was taken before the conflict began.

The supreme leader, who has yet to be seen in public in nearly half a year, suffered severe leg and facial injuries in the Feb. 28 strike on his father’s compound, according to Washington and Tehran.

Khamenei’s face was disfigured in the strike and has been kept out of the public eye, sources close to the supreme leader told Reuters, with recent reports suggesting the supreme leader was suffering health complications from his injuries.

Iranian officials have repeatedly denied that Khamenei’s health is deteriorating and that he merely serves as a puppet for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that backs his rule.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: ayatollahpotato; gayatollah; health; iran; rumors; supreme

[Libloather]

Big Mo still not showing his missing leg. Looks like the left one. Any World Cup hopes are dashed.

[Texas Eagle]

I’m sure it’s good enough for the Trump hating fake news media.

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

His Hand looks fake

[neverevergiveup]

Zoom in on that picture. It looks doctored. His right hand looks particularly strange to me.

[neverevergiveup]

Four seconds ahead of me!

[cpdiii]

He is either dead or organic soup clinging to life. In fact this became an opportunity for the IRG to claim supreme power. They edit all he says and claim it it real. It is not.

[Eli Kopter]

He’s dead, Jim. The IRGC will announce it soon according to sources.

[Libloather]

Yep, my mistake. His right side is missing. That hand is a prop from Party City.

[Verginius Rufus]

They should release a split-screen video with him talking to McConnell. McConnell can be holding today’s newspaper.

[ridesthemiles]

BETCHA IT IS A PROSTHETIC ARM/HAND

[frank ballenger]

All this time I have complained here that the news media shows the same OLD, OUTDATED photos of the fearless leader with happy fans. NOT recent ones and NOT labeled by the media as “January, 2026 File Photo” as they do with old UFO scenes.

[frank ballenger]

Funny would be the Iran fearless leader holding up a newspaper with
Mitch McConnell smiling in pajamas “I feel fine.”

[frank ballenger]

He’s dead, Jim. The IRGC will announce it soon according to sources.

Followed by el-Sayed and Hasan Piker choking back tears. "A lot of people in Dearborn, Michigan are sad today."

[frank ballenger]

That’s why they tried to blur out “#1 Cheese Head Fan” from the foam hand prop.

[frank ballenger]

RE: Zoom in on that picture. It looks doctored. His right hand looks particularly strange to me.

Karen Black and the others agreed.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=horror+movie+creeping+hand&FORM=HDRSC3

[plain talk]

The photo may be an old one before the war and bombings.

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[Red6]

I’d be almost funny if he’s dead too.

This is ripe for a Monty Python skin, “who wants the be the next ayatollah?”

[Celerity]

First thing I thought was...

... He looks like a limp wristed faggot.

Sitting up on that chair like he’s about to dish some serious rumors with his girlfriends.

The body language. He’s a floofer.

[cpdiii]

If he were alive and horrible injured and mentally competent to direct the regime it would be good to show him as such and in command. He is not and he is dead as his father in the same strike that killed then both least he be not dead but the almost dead.

PS

I lived in Iran as a kid of 13 years old in the sixties. It was good. I did not learn how to speak Farsi but my little sister did. She became my translator. Young kids learn quick as I did Spanish in my youth on the Texas border with Mexico.