U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday ​that it was unclear whether the new Iranian leader, ‌Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, was still alive, given reports he had been injured in an air strike.

“We don’t know… if he’s ​dead or not. I will say that ​nobody has seen him, which is unusual,” he ⁠said during an event at the White House.

After ​Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was killed in the ​initial strikes of the war, Tehran announced his son, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, had been named as his successor.

Pentagon chief Pete ​Hegseth said last week the new leader was ​believed to have been wounded in a strike. He has ‌not ⁠been seen publicly.

“A lot of people are saying that he’s badly disfigured. They’re saying that he lost his leg … and he’s been hurt very badly. Other ​people are saying ​he’s dead,” ⁠Trump said.

Oman has attempted multiple times to open a line of communication between ​the United States and Iran, but the ​White ⁠House made it clear it is not interested at this juncture, Reuters reported on Saturday.

“We don’t know who ⁠their ​leader is. We have people ​wanting to negotiate. We have no idea who they are,” Trump said.