TEHRAN, Aug 10 \u2014 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian recently met with supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not appeared in public since assuming the post early in the Middle East war, Khamenei\u2019s office said yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cDr Masoud Pezeshkian met Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei and spoke with him at the start of his third year in the presidency,\u201d the supreme leader\u2019s office said in a statement, without indicating the date of the meeting.<\/p>\n
Pezeshkian, who took office in July 2024, had said in early May that he met with Khamenei, also without specifying the date, but the supreme leader\u2019s office did not issue any statements at the time.<\/p>\n
The president had said on Wednesday that communication with Khamenei was \u201cvery difficult at the moment\u201d, and speculation has swirled about the supreme leader\u2019s health after he was reportedly wounded in strikes that killed his father.<\/p>\n
Khamenei\u2019s office said the two \u201cdiscussed in detail the country\u2019s issues and problems\u201d, including the \u201ccurrent military situation and future prospects\u201d.<\/p>\n
Iran had been engaged in negotiations with Washington on ending the war launched by the US and Israel in February, but a preliminary deal fell apart, and its top diplomat has said talks are now limited to exchanging messages through mediators.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Tasnim news agency cited a general in the Revolutionary Guards as saying that images showing Khamenei among the people and during meetings would be \u201cpublished in the future\u201d, without offering a timeline. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN, Aug 10 \u2014 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian recently met with supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[8559,34,5114,187,188,16495,42283],"class_list":["post-242837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-ayatollah-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-iran","tag-iranian-president-masoud-pezeshkian","tag-middle-east-war","tag-revolutionary-guards","tag-tasnim-news-agency","tag-us-israel-negotiations"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117069195782037666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}