Overview
- - The leader’s protocol chief, Mazaher Hoseini, said Jameneí is in perfect health, speaking at a recent pro-government gathering reported by the ILNA news agency.
- - Hoseini acknowledged a knee and back injury from the February 28 bombing that killed Jameneí’s wife and his father and predecessor, Ali Jameneí, adding the back has healed and the knee is improving.
- - Jameneí has not appeared in public since his March 8 appointment as supreme leader, an unusual gap for Iran’s top political and religious authority.
- - Since then, his office has issued only written messages that are read on state television or posted online.
- - President Masud Pezeshkian and General Ali Abdolahi said in recent days that they met with Jameneí, signaling efforts to show the leadership is functioning.