Iran president says contact with supreme leader is 'very difficult'
President Masoud Pezeshkian said communication with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is currently 'very difficult', as Khamenei has stayed out of public view since being wounded in a US-Israeli strike that killed his father.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Wednesday that communication with the country's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is "very difficult at the moment." Khamenei was wounded in the US-Israeli strike that triggered the Middle East war and has not appeared in public since succeeding his father, who was killed in the same attack.
"It is very difficult to communicate with him at the moment, but in any case, his presence is a very great source of strength for us so that we can continue," Pezeshkian said. The younger Khamenei has communicated through written statements, but his low profile at a time when Iran is in conflict with the United States has sparked speculation about his relations with other senior officials. Notably, he did not attend his father's funeral ceremonies last month.
Pezeshkian, however, defended his leader, insisting that he has held productive meetings with him and was met with "kindness and very sound logic." "Unfortunately, the current situation allows some malicious people to describe him differently and to present a different image of him," he said.
