TREE NEWS update: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said he met Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei about a month ago and held seven hours of talks with him, describing the leader as “very healthy and fully capable of governing.” In an interview aired on September 24, Pezeshkian said all guidelines for Iranian policy are issued by the Supreme Leader.
Iran’s president says Supreme Leader Khamenei is in good health
The intervention is notable less for the health claim itself than for the framing: a sitting president publicly locating all policy authority in the Supreme Leader, and doing so in a televised interview rather than a written statement. That emphasis invites scrutiny of succession mechanics and internal power distribution rather than confirming any medical fact, since the account rests on a single official's recollection of a private meeting. Whether such public reassurances continue, and whether other senior figures echo them, is the open question.
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