According to an extraordinary report, the man now ruling Iran came within seconds of dying alongside his father — saved only by an errand that took him into the courtyard of the Tehran compound moments before US and Israeli missiles obliterated it.
Mojtaba Khamenei, who has inherited the supreme leadership following Operation Epic Fury‘s assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28, was caught in the blast but reportedly walked away with a leg wound. Behind him, the building was destroyed.
A senior aide to the Khamenei family described the escape as divine intervention, telling a private gathering on March 12 — recorded and obtained by reporters — that it was « God’s will » the new supreme leader had stepped outside when he did.
The Express understands Mazaher Hosseini, head of protocol for the Khamenei office, told those present: « Mojtaba was outside and sustained only a minor injury to his leg. »
The full picture, however, may be grimmer. Sources say the 56-year-old lost a leg entirely and sustained severe internal injuries to his abdomen.
‘A few kilos of flesh’
Those who remained inside fared catastrophically, a report by the Sun has found. Hosseini described the fate of Iranian military chief Mohammad Shiraz in chilling terms, saying he was found « blown to pieces – they could find nothing from him, and at the end they found a few kilos of flesh and identified it as his body. »
Three missiles hit the compound in total, Hosseini told the gathering, each striking with enough force to devastate every floor, states the Telegraph, which obtained the recording.
« The missile was so powerful that it went downstairs where Mr Misbah [Ali Khamenei’s brother-in-law] was… the missiles hit in a way that his head was cut in half, » he said.
Mojtaba’s wife did not survive. His eldest son and daughter-in-law escaped without physical harm, Hosseini said.
The scale of the family’s losses only became clear when Israel and Trump went public that evening — confirming not just the Ayatollah’s death but that four of his relatives, including a daughter, grandchild, daughter-in-law and son-in-law, had also been killed in the strike.
Months of watching
The attack was the product of painstaking intelligence work stretching back months. American and Israeli agencies worked in close coordination, with the CIA building a detailed picture of the Ayatollah’s daily movements and feeding that intelligence to Israeli planners, the New York Times reported.
Every habit, every routine, every pattern was logged.
The strike had originally been conceived as a night operation — darkness offering cover and the element of surprise. That calculation changed when signals intelligence placed Khamenei at his leadership compound on a Saturday morning, presiding over a gathering of Iran’s most senior figures. The window was too good to pass up.
Israeli agents embedded within the Iranian establishment had identified not one but three high-level meetings due to take place that day, pinpointing their locations with enough precision to act.
At approximately 6am Israeli time, fighter jets departed for Iran. Three hours and forty minutes later, long-range missiles hit the compound. According to Israel’s Channel 12, the supreme leader and those around him were dead within thirty seconds of the first impact.
Launching in broad daylight was a deliberate tactical choice — planners calculated that Iranian security would be oriented towards defending against nocturnal strikes, as had characterised every previous raid.
Ali Khamenei’s remains were pulled from the wreckage of the compound he had commanded for decades.
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