By Mike Claydon, Israel Report

He believes himself to be the prophesied figure paving the way for the Quranic “Messiah” - Mahdi

Mojtaba Khamenei & supporters think he is the ‘Khorasani’ tasked with conquering Jerusalem & Mecca.

Iranian state television reported on Monday that Mojtaba had been wounded, though the broadcast did not provide details about the circumstances of the injury or its severity.

The report also did not indicate when the injury occurred or whether it affected his day-to-day responsibilities.

Despite earlier assurances from Iranian officials and state media, no photograph or video of the newly installed supreme leader has yet been released, fueling speculation among observers and opposition groups.

With Mojtaba Khamenei, the Iranian regime elevated a dangerous ideologue who is obsessed with the end times – and even believes he is a prophesied figure playing a key role in bringing about the return of the Mahdi, according to several experts.

This isn’t particularly surprising considering that Iran is a theocracy in which the mosque is the state, the Qur’an provides constitutional logic, and eschatology shapes foreign policy.

Nevertheless, the new supreme leader, who has yet to appear in public, is particularly radical, even compared to his own father.

The elder Khamenei wasn’t as obsessed with the end times, nor was he a racist like his son, who believes in “Persian supremacy.”

He says the Persians are the true companions of the Imam of the Time, the Awaited Mahdi. Persians first… Mojtaba, from the beginning, has been a hardline Shia extremist.

While the elder Khamenei demonstrated a willingness to bend and reach out to allies to ensure his regime’s survival… Mojtaba, by contrast, is calculating and ideological, and willing to cause terrible destruction to the world just to prove a point.

Mojtaba is much more dangerous than his father, and had predicted that he would grab power long before he was chosen to succeed his father.

Those he studied with came to view the supreme leader’s son as a brilliant zealot, much more extreme and uncompromising than his father, and a uniquely dangerous potential successor.

Mojtaba thinks there are milestones on the path to the end of the world and he himself will have a special part in hastening humanity down that path.

Mojtaba Khamenei was born in Mashhad, a holy city of Shia Islam that lies in the far east of Iran, near the Afghan border in a neglected region known as Khorasan.

According to Shia eschatology, the return of the Mahdi, a Muslim messianic figure who precedes the end of days that is heralded by the return of Jesus (known as Isa), will be announced by the appearance of three mythological figures: The Yamani, the Sufyani – and the Khorasani.

Among radical regime circles and IRGC operatives, some believe the Yamani (literally meaning a man from Yemen) to be Abd-al-Malik al-Houthi, leader of the Houthi terrorists, while the Sufyani, who is expected to emerge from Damascus, is often identified with Ahmed al-Sharaa, the new leader of Syria.

Mojtaba Khamenei, now fatefully Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic and commander of its armed forces, believes himself to be the prophesied figure of the Khorasani.

News just in; Khamenei has reportedly been hospitalized at Sina Hospital in Tehran.

According to the report, he was seriously wounded in the abdomen and leg and is currently connected to a ventilator.