President Masoud Pezeshkian and Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei discussed Iran’s issues, including the current military situation and future prospects. (AFP pic)TEHRAN : 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’s office said Sunday. “Dr Masoud Pezeshkian met Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei and spoke with him at the start of his third year in the presidency,” the supreme leader’s office said in a statement, without indicating the date of the meeting. 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’s office did not issue any statements at the time. The president had said on Wednesday that communication with Khamenei was “very difficult at the moment”, and speculation has swirled about the supreme leader’s health after he was reportedly wounded in strikes that killed his father.