
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met Mojtaba Khamenei in darkness, but was not convinced that the person before him was Khamenei, NDTV reports. The interaction lasted only a few minutes, according to the…
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met Mojtaba Khamenei in darkness, but was not convinced that the person before him was Khamenei, NDTV reports. The interaction lasted only a few minutes, according to the report. Pezeshkian was then asked to leave. Mojtaba Khamenei’s guards reportedly stopped the president from shaking hands with him. The account offers no further details about why the meeting took place in darkness or why the guards restricted contact. It also does not establish whether the person Pezeshkian met was someone else.
The episode invites dramatic claims about secrecy, security and Iran’s leadership, but the available account is too thin to support them. A brief meeting in darkness and a blocked handshake may indicate strict protection, confusion or something more unusual. None of those explanations is established here. The useful test is whether Iranian authorities or additional credible reporting identify the setting, the meeting’s purpose and who was present.
Source: ndtv.com
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