Ali Nikzad, deputy speaker of the parliament, said on Thursday evening at a ceremony in Neka County that preserving the life of Mojtaba Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, in an attack by the United States and Israel is “certainly a miracle.”

Nikzad said: “That someone, in the line of the martyred leader, was able to study in Qom and Tehran, teach, and serve as a student in various arenas, and then, during the attack by the United States, his life was preserved—this is certainly a miracle.”