Rubio says Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei alive and 'increasingly engaging'

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who was wounded in US-Israeli attacks and has not been seen in public since assuming office, is alive and increasingly active, AFP reports.

“I think there are indications out there that he is increasingly engaging at some level,” Rubio tells the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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