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Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was left severely disfigured and likely lost a leg in the February 28 airstrike that killed his father.

Getting into it: According to Reuters, citing three people close to his inner circle, the 56-year-old suffered disfiguring facial injuries and significant wounds to one or both legs in the joint US-Israeli strike on the supreme leader’s compound in central Tehran. A source familiar with US intelligence assessments said he’s believed to have lost a leg entirely. The same attack killed his predecessor and father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had ruled Iran since 1989, along with Mojtaba’s wife, his brother-in-law, his sister-in-law, his daughter, and dozens of top regime military leaders.

Despite all of that, the sources say Khamenei remains mentally sharp and has been conducting meetings with senior officials over audio calls, including playing a direct role in decisions around the war and peace talks with the US. Notably, Mojtaba was appointed Supreme Leader on March 8, but hasn’t been seen, heard, or photographed since. His only public communications have been two written statements, which fueled weeks of speculation about whether he was even alive. A state television newsreader later referred to him as a “janbaz” (a term reserved for those badly wounded in war), but beyond that, the regime has said nothing officially about the extent of his injuries.

This all comes as there’s been some talk that Mojtaba is somewhere in the city of Qom, where a diplomatic memo cited by The Times (reportedly based on American and Israeli intelligence) claimed he’s being treated and is in far worse shape than the Reuters sources suggest, potentially unconscious and unable to make decisions at all.

There was also speculation for a while that he’d been quietly moved to Russia for medical treatment, but Moscow’s ambassador to Iran put that to rest at the end of March, saying Khamenei is still in the country but staying out of sight for obvious reasons.