New Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has been put in charge by the rogue state’s ruling clerics despite being critically wounded in an air strike.

Sources told The Sun the 56-year-old son of assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lost at least one leg and has also suffered serious stomach or liver damage.

It was unclear whether he was injured on the same day his 86-year-old father died – February 28 – but he is not directing the strategy currently sparking energy market turmoil.

In a bizarre attempt to cover up their stricken Ayatollah, Iranian state TV broadcast what they claim to be his first statement since coming into power.

The statement – read out by a news anchor – said Iran will not hesitate to “avenge the blood of Iranians” who have been killed as it vowed to continue attacks on Dubai and block off the vital Strait of Hormuz.

The statement – read out by a news anchor – said Iran will not hesitate to “avenge the blood of Iranians” who have been killed as it vowed to continue attacks on Dubai and block off the vital Strait of Hormuz.

A Sun source in Iranian capital Tehran today smuggled out extraordinary detail about the new leader’s condition, treatment, location and security.

He is currently under intensive care at the Sina University Hospital in the city’s historic quarter after a section of the building was sealed off surrounded by massive security.

The source – who asked not to be identified fearing for his life – managed to dodge Iran’s near total internet blackout to send messages to an exiled dissident based in London.

He is not a medic but knows members of the hospital’s trauma team who told him Mojtaba was in “very serious” condition under the care of Mohammad Reza Zafarghandi.

Zafarghandi is Iran’s Minister of health, Treatment and Medical Education but also one of the country’s top trauma surgeons.

The Sun source said in his message: “One or two of his legs have been cut off. His liver or stomach has also ruptured. He is apparently in a coma as well.”

Zafarghandi’s Persian Wikipedia page reveals he honed his skills after eight years operating in the bloody Iran-Iraq War in the 1980’s.

The 70-year-old surgeon was himself wounded by chemical weapons in the Iran Iraq war and is the Islamist regime’s most trusted physician.

Our source’s detailed revelations are impossible to verify under Iran’s current internet blackout but Mojtaba status among Iran’s thousands of war wounded has already been confirmed.

Iranian state TV now openly refers to the late ayatollah’s silent successor as “Jaanbaz of Ramadan” – wounded war veteran.

And the rogue nation’s continuing attacks on neighbouring states – which have sent oil and gas prices soaring – supports theories that Iran is now being run by a “Ghost Ayatollah.”

Fighting has continued despite the loss of two ayatollahs in a matter of days after Khamenei set up 31 regional commands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to take over if the regime was decapitated.

And commanders spread across the nation are now under orders to fight on indefinitely – with no leader in place to call a halt.

Iranian social media sources added further detail as Mojtaba’s critical condition was laid bare for the first time today.

Veteran surgeon Zafarghandi was said to have been assisted by Dr. Mohammad Marashi, a senior surgeon at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.

Marashi is the brother of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s wife and another trusted figure close to the heart of the hardline regime.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was also reported to have visited the Sina Hospital two days ago accompanied by Dr. Zafarghandi.

And speculation followed that Pezeshkian was secretly visiting Mojtaba and is being kept fully briefed on his condition.

Security at the hospital was said to be extremely tight, with access to the intensive care unit restricted to only a handful of authorized individuals.

Other sources reported alleged Mojtada is entirely unaware of the ongoing war, the deaths of family members including his wife and son and even his own election as Supreme Leader.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei put his nation’s war machine on autopilot before he was wiped out in the first action of Operation Epic Fury.

His shadowy son Mojtaba, 56, succeeded him five days ago but has never given a public speech and has stayed silent amid rumours he is already dead.

And Iranian insiders told The Sun this was his evil father’s grand plan – and that troops launching drones and missiles have been primed to fight on, led by “a ghost.”

The fate of Mojtaba – who lost his wife, Zahra, eight-year-old son Bagher as well as his mother and sister in the blast which killed his 86-year-old father – remained unclear last night.

But State TV is now openly referring to the late ayatollah’s silent successor as “Jaanbaz of Ramadan” – wounded war veteran.

Evil Khamenei’s Snr’s legacy will be spiralling World War III fears coupled with higher bills and economic misery for Brits and consumers across the globe.