{"id":983021,"date":"2026-08-05T20:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/983021\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T20:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:27:20","slug":"irans-president-reportedly-met-elusive-supreme-leader-in-darkness-or-did-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/983021\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s president reportedly met elusive supreme leader in darkness \u2014 or did he?"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Iran\u2019s<\/a> mysterious, \u201cprobably gay\u201d supreme leader is so elusive that even his own president isn\u2019t convinced he met him in a bizarre one-on-one in the back of a dark car.<\/p>\n

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was whisked to a secret location in Tehran, shoved into the back seat of a dark car with blacked-out windows and told he was sitting next to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei \u2014 except he never actually saw the man, according to a bombshell report from Iran International.<\/p>\n

The bizarre cloak-and-dagger meeting reportedly lasted just a few minutes, not the cozy two-and-a-half-hour sit-down Pezeshkian bragged about publicly in May. <\/p>\n

\"IranianIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian reportedly questioned whether he\u2019d actually met Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei in a bizarre meeting held under the cover of darkness. Iranian Presidency via ZUMA Press \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

It is unclear when the reported meeting occurred.<\/p>\n

Sources told Iran International that Khamenei\u2019s office agreed to the meeting only after Pezeshkian repeatedly begged for one and threatened to quit.<\/a> Even then, the supreme leader refused to meet at his official residence, as is custom.<\/p>\n

Instead, the president was driven to a secret location in Tehran, pulled from his own security convoy and placed in the back of a commercial vehicle. <\/p>\n

The cabin was kept so dark the two men couldn\u2019t see each other \u2014 with guards even barring Pezeshkian from shaking the supreme leader\u2019s hand. <\/p>\n

The situation reportedly irritated Pezeshkian, who asked aides whether the person beside him had actually been Khamenei at all \u2014 because all he\u2019d heard was someone talking in the dark.<\/p>\n

The president has since asked for another meeting, this time face-to-face at the leader\u2019s residence. So far, he\u2019s been turned down.<\/p>\n

Pezeshkian has since offered to step down again, complaining that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had seized near-total control <\/a>over running the country, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Iranian media reported this week that Khamenei formally granted IRGC Commander-in-Chief Ahmad Vahidi the ultimate authority on decision-making, sidelining Pezeshkian\u2019s political administration.<\/p>\n

\"MojtabaIran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since taking power following his father\u2019s death on Feb. 28. ISNA\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Pezeshkian\u2019s strange rendezvous with the supreme leader only adds to the growing mystery surrounding Khamenei, who was described as \u201cprobably gay\u201d in a briefing for President Trump early in the war.<\/p>\n

Khamenei has effectively vanished from public view since taking power roughly five months ago.<\/a><\/p>\n

Not a single verified photo, video or audio recording of Iran\u2019s new ruler has been released. All his statements have come in written form, and he didn\u2019t even attend his father\u2019s funeral last month.<\/a><\/p>\n

The silence has become so deafening that even Iran\u2019s state-aligned media has tried to explain it away.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s government-owned Hamshahri newspaper claimed this week that foreign intelligence agencies could pinpoint Khamenei\u2019s location from something as simple as background noise in an audio recording \u2014 a bizarre claim that only fueled more speculation over his whereabouts and condition.<\/p>\n

He famously \u201cappeared\u201d as a cardboard cutout at a pre-regime allegiance rally days after the war on Iran began Feb. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Iran\u2019s mysterious, \u201cprobably gay\u201d supreme leader is so elusive that even his own president isn\u2019t convinced…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":983022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[266825,83,269500,50,2053,131,103,107],"class_list":["post-983021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-ayatollah-khamenei","tag-iran","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-news","tag-tehran","tag-war","tag-world","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117044790624735629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/983022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}