# Supreme Leader

A Wounded Icon: How the 1981 Mosque Bombing and a Paralyzed Arm Shaped Khamenei’s Three-Decade Rule

A Chinese article reports that Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an attack attributed to the United States and Israel, and uses the claim to revisit his life. It emphasizes the 1981 mosque bombing that left his right arm paralyzed, a wound that became a lasting symbol of his legitimacy and the violence that has shaped the Islamic Republic.