Confirmed: He is wounded

“He was wounded, but he is feeling well. I don’t know when he will deliver his first speech,” he said in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing three Iranian officials who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, that there are concerns any public communication by the new Iranian leader could reveal his location and put him in danger.

The American newspaper also received confirmation that the son of the slain Ali Khamenei was wounded in the attack in which his father and several members of the family were killed, but that his injuries are not life-threatening.