Iranian women, one wearing a chador, walk past a banner depicting Iran's new supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, along a street in northern Tehran. AFP
Citing several Iranian officials, which it did not name, the Times said Mojtaba Khamenei had "at least for now" delegated decision-making to generals in the Revolutionary Guards' ideological army.
Mojtaba Khamenei has not appeared in public since succeeding his father and only issued written statements, creating speculation over his condition and if he is still alive.
Although Mojtaba Khamenei was "gravely wounded (in the February 28 airstrike), he is mentally sharp and engaged," said the NYT.
"One leg was operated on three times, and he is awaiting a prosthetic. He had surgery on one hand and is slowly regaining function. His face and lips have been burned severely, making it difficult for him to speak," it cited the officials as saying, adding that "eventually, he will need plastic surgery."
Access for security reasons is extremely limited to Khamenei, who remains in hiding, with only handwritten messages passed on, it said.
Guards commanders do not visit him, but President Masoud Pezeshkian, who is also a heart surgeon, has been involved in his care, it said.
It said the generals from the Guards who viewed the war with the US and Israel as "a threat to the regime's survival" that has now been contained.
They have also been in charge of military strategy, including the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Previously, Iranian officials said Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei is injured but "safe."
"I heard news that Mr Mojtaba Khamenei had been injured. I have asked some friends who had connections," the Iranian president's son, Yousef Pezeshkian, wrote in a post on his Telegram channel.
"They told me that, thank God, he is safe and sound," added Pezeshkian, who is a government advisor.
Khamenei was named Iran's supreme leader to replace his father, Ali, who was assassinated in an air strike at the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran on February 28.
"He was also there, and he was injured in that bombardment, but I haven't seen that reflected in the foreign news," Tehran's ambassador to Cyprus, Alireza Salarian, told The Guardian newspaper on Wednesday.
The strike on the compound in central Tehran also killed other members of the Khamenei family, including Mojtaba's wife and mother, according to Iranian authorities.
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