Iran says its new supreme leader was injured during US-Israeli airstrikes, following speculation that he was hiding from public view in part because of his wounds.

Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was wounded in the US-Israeli airstrikes which killed his father.

The 56-year-old assumed the top position after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the initial strikes on Iran, but has not been seen in public since.

Mojtaba Khamenei had been lightly wounded in the strikes but continued to operate, an Iranian official told Reuters.

The new supreme leader has long been a secretive figure within Iran and has not given any public statement since being appointed by an assembly of Iranian clerics on Sunday.

Mr Khamenei lost his father, mother, wife and other relatives during the Israeli airstrike on 28 February.

Speculation has been mounting about the health of the new supreme leader, with Yousef Pezeshkian, the son of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, referring to reports that he had been injured.

In a post on Telegram, he said: “I heard news about Mr Mojtaba being injured. I asked friends who were in contact. They said, thank God, he is healthy and there is no problem.”