Iran president says contact with supreme leader is 'very difficult'

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said Wednesday that contact with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has become "very difficult," France 24 reports. The remark comes amid mounting speculation over the leader's absence from public view since he was reportedly wounded in the US-Israeli strike that killed his father. Pezeshkian pushed back on that speculation, defending Khamenei rather than detailing his condition.

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