Iran’s Pezeshkian says he recently met with yet-to-be-seen supreme leader |
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Thursday that he had met with the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since his appointment in early March.
Pezeshkian did not say when their meeting took place.
“What struck me most during this meeting was the vision and the humble and sincere approach of the supreme leader of the Islamic Revolution,” the president said in a video broadcast by state television.
Khamenei, said wounded in strikes on the first day of the Middle East war that claimed the life of his father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, has appeared to release only written statements since his appointment.
His 86-year-old father was killed in US-Israeli strikes in late February after more than three decades at the helm of the Islamic Republic.
Ali Khamenei himself had succeeded the founder of the republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1989.
Mojtaba’s appointment by Iran’s Assembly of Experts, an 88-member body responsible for selecting the supreme........