Tehran, Sept. 27 -- Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was "pulled from the rubble" of a Tehran hospital after the US and Israel launched air strikes at the medical facility where he had been taken following earlier attacks, the New York Post reported.

The report cited Mohsen Heydari, a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, who made the revelation in an interview with Qatari television network Al Araby.

Heydari said Khamenei survived a second strike in February after the initial attack targeting his father nearly killed him. The February 28 strike hit Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's Tehran compound, killing the 86-year-old supreme leader along with several senior figures.

"Even after he had been wounded and taken to the hospital, three hosp...