# Iran’s disfigured supreme leader remains unseen six months into existential war

https://mins.news/en/item/35220

- Reuters, 2026-08-28 05:10 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-disfigured-supreme-leader-remains-invisible-six-months-into-an-existential-2026-08-28/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a9118388f085800017b527d

> Six months after airstrikes started the war and a severely wounded Mojtaba Khamenei became Iran’s supreme leader, he remains neither seen nor heard by Iranians, leaving a vacuum at the center of the country’s leadership.

## Stories

- [Iran US War and Gulf Escalation](https://mins.news/en/topic/iran-us-war-and-gulf-escalation) — Markdown: https://mins.news/en/topic/iran-us-war-and-gulf-escalation.md

## Related coverage

- [After six months of war, what have the US and Iran gained and lost?](https://mins.news/en/item/35625) — Al Jazeera, 2026-08-28
- [Iran war six months on: Tehran’s leverage reshapes the Gulf region](https://mins.news/en/video/35320) — Al Jazeera English, 2026-08-28
- [Six months on, Iran still stands but survival is growing more costly](https://mins.news/en/item/35292) — Al Jazeera, 2026-08-28
- [Trump says Mojtaba Khamenei survived strikes on Iran](https://mins.news/en/item/33327) — TASS, 2026-08-26