Tehran, May 1 -- Ayatollah Mohsen Qomi, Member of the Assembly of Experts and the Deputy for International Affairs in the office of the Supreme Leader of Iran, dismissed claims by the US on Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and said that the leader is healthy, Fars News Agency reported.

Qomi said that such tactics are used by the West to elicit their reaction and engage in rumour mongering.

"Some people ask about the health status of His Eminence the Leader, Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Khamenei. This is a trick used by the enemy, who wants to say, 'Why is he not present? Why doesn't he send an audio or video message? Why don't the people who have visited him come forward and speak?' They want to use these questions to force us into re...