Iran’s Fars News Agency reported on March 12 that Mansoura Khojasteh, the wife of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was still alive.
Fars Agency said in a statement, “The initial reports about her death are false.”
Iranian state media reported on March 2 that Mansoura Khojasteh was killed in a raid on Ali Khamenei’s residence on February 28, at the beginning of the US-Israeli war with Iran.
The raid reportedly killed Ali Khamenei, his daughter, his son-in-law, and his grandson.
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Iran’s new supreme leader, the son of the country’s former leader Mojtaba Khamenei, said in his first address to the nation on March 12 that his wife and sister were killed as a result of US and Israeli strikes. But he did not talk about his mother’s death.