India, April 24 -- Iran's new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has been somewhat missing from the public sphere ever since he took charge as the country's top leader following his father Syed Ali Khamenei's death in a US-Israel joint strike on Iran in February 28.

No video or audio messages, Mojtaba's statements are coming only via statements on social media or are read on the state television. Mojtaba is consciously as he does not want to appear vulnerable or sound weak in his first public address, the New York Times reported quoting an Iranian official.

According to the report, senior commanders of the Iran Guards and senior government officials do not visit him as they fear that Israel may trace them to him and kill him. A...