# Iranian Cleric Says Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei Was Rescued From Rubble After Tehran Hospital Bombing

*Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 6:06 PM UTC — Hamer Intelligence Services Desk*

**Published**: 2026-09-26T18:06:41.797Z (2h ago)
**Category**: geopolitics | **Region**: Middle East
**Importance**: 10/10
**Sources**: OSINT
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**Deck**: Ayatollah Mohsen Heydari, a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, says Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was wounded during Operation Lion’s Roar and pulled from debris after a hospital bombing in Tehran, with three medical facilities reportedly struck once his hospitalization became known.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was pulled from under rubble after a hospital bombing in Tehran, according to a senior Iranian cleric who says three medical facilities were targeted once his location became known.

Ayatollah Mohsen Heydari, a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, described the episode in comments about Operation Lion’s Roar. He said Khamenei was injured in the attack and then hospitalized in Tehran. After news spread that the supreme leader had been moved to a hospital, three hospitals in the capital were attacked, Heydari said.

According to his account, Khamenei was in the third hospital that came under fire and was rescued from the rubble there. Heydari did not provide details on the type of munitions used, possible casualties among medical staff and patients, or the extent of Khamenei’s injuries.

The cleric’s remarks line up with other Iranian and regional reporting that has mentioned multiple strikes in Tehran linked to Operation Lion’s Roar, but public information remains limited. There is no independent visual evidence for the specific hospital damage he described, and no foreign government has publicly claimed responsibility for the attacks or released its own assessment.

What is clear from the account is that medical facilities were treated as potential targets in a battle over Iran’s leadership. That would have put hospital workers, patients and visiting families in the path of attacks that were, by Heydari’s description, aimed at reaching the country’s top authority.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has already seized on the incident in his speech to the UN General Assembly, calling the killing of Iran’s supreme leader an unacceptable manifestation of dictatorship and condemning the use of force against him. His language goes further than Heydari’s description of Khamenei as wounded and rescued, highlighting how the same set of events is being framed differently on the international stage.

For Iran’s network of allies and partners, the revelation that the supreme leader was injured and endangered inside his own capital underscores that the confrontation around Operation Lion’s Roar reached directly into the country’s power structure. How Tehran chooses to describe the attacks at home, and whether it links any future response to the hospital strikes, will shape how this episode fits into the wider conflict.

Key signals to watch now are whether Iranian authorities formally confirm or contradict Heydari’s account, whether they release any imagery or official casualty figures from the hospital attacks, and whether Iran or aligned groups publicly justify new actions as retaliation for the strikes that Heydari says left Khamenei under the rubble.