Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha slammed CNN for airing the Iranian state media’s televised address of someone reading a speech from the new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.

The remarks were the first time the public heard from Khamenei since he was elevated to supreme leader after his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed by United States and Israeli airstrikes. The younger Khamenei did not appear or release an audio statement in his address.