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The claim

In this post on X, a user claims that Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran's recently assassinated supreme leader, was also killed in US strikes in Tehran. The post has 2.6 million views at the time of writing.

Rating

Unproven

Reviewed by Deutsche Welle ↗ ·

Original fact check ↗

Original review summary

DW said there was no evidence Mojtaba Khamenei had been killed and no formal statement of his death from the US, Israel, or Iran. It noted that Israel’s defense minister had called any successor to Ali Khamenei an “unequivocal target for elimination.”[S1]

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  1. [S1] Deutsche Welle original review

    Original review · Retrieved October 16, 2026