Reporter reaches dramatic conclusion based on new Iran leader's comments: 'He's injured'

Iran’s new supreme leader issued his first message Thursday through Iranian state media and did not appear on camera or read the statement — a move that reveals he was wounded, a CNN correspondent said.

CNN international reporter Nick Paton Walsh signaled that Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, could be seriously injured as a result of the U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed his father and left several of his other family members dead.

"It's what we didn't hear and what we didn't see," Paton Walsh said.