Amid reports that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is in a coma, Iran’s Supreme Leader posted a photo of himself meeting an Iranian ambassador on Sunday.

Several media reports recently claimed that the 85-year-old Khamenei was in a coma and that he had nominated his 55-year-old son, Mojtaba Khamenei, as his successor during a secret meeting. The reports came after The New York Times said in October that Khamenei was “seriously ill.”

In the photo on Khamenei’s X account, he was seen talking to Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, in his office.

“Ayatollah Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Revolution, met and spoke with Mr. Mojtaba Amani, the veteran Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Lebanon, today at noon, on the sidelines of his daily meetings,” he wrote in Persian.

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Amani was among nearly 3,000 people injured when pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to the Iran-backed Hezbollah group exploded in Lebanon in September. The attack, which Iran and Hezbollah blamed on Israel, also killed at least 39 people.

Amani presented him with a report on his latest health status, an official statement said.

Last month, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered his first sermon in five years after Iran launched 180 missiles targeting crucial infrastructure in Israel.

He said Israel “will not last long,” while supporting Palestinian and Lebanese movements against Israel in his rare Oct. 5 sermon.

Addressing tens of thousands of supporters at a Tehran mosque, Khamenei justified his rocket attacks on Israel as a “public service.”

Holding a gun as he spoke, the Iranian leader declared that Israel would not gain the upper hand over Hamas or Hezbollah.

Iran supports both Hamas and Hezbollah, which are engaged in fighting with Israeli forces on the southern and northern fronts.