Iran says Khamenei in 'good health'

TEHRAN: The Iranian foreign ministry on Sunday said that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was "in good health", denying rumours on foreign websites alleging that he had died.   

"We wish good health and a long life to the supreme leader. He is in good health," foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters.   

The rumours appear to have sprung from an unsourced assertion Thursday on the weblog of a US neoconservative academic, Michael Ledeen, that the supreme leader was dead.   

Khamenei, 67, who has the final say on foreign policy and military matters, has been supreme leader since 1989.