Tinted Car, Dark Room, No Handshake: Inside Iran President's Secret Meeting With Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei

Published 4 August 2026 · politics

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News world Tinted Car, Dark Room, No Handshake: Inside Iran President's Secret Meeting With Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei Tinted Car, Dark Room, No Handshake: Inside Iran President's Secret Meeting With Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei Published By, Last Updated: August 04, 2026, 21:49 IST Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian's only meeting with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei lasted minutes in complete darkness without a handshake. Mojtaba Khamenei Still Missing From Public Eye After Operation Epic Fury. (Photo Credit: X) Mojtaba Khamenei is alive? Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was reportedly taken to a secret location in Tehran, driven in the back of a tinted-window vehicle and granted only a brief meeting in darkness with a man he could not see, according to a report by Iran International. The report claims that after the meeting, Pezeshkian questioned whether the voice he heard had really belonged to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. What we know about the meeting? According to Iran International, Pezeshkian had earlier told a gathering of trade association representatives in mid-May that he spent two and a half hours with the new supreme leader “in a cordial atmosphere." However, sources cited by the outlet claimed the meeting lasted only a few minutes before the president was asked to leave.

The report said the meeting was approved only after Pezeshkian repeatedly requested it and threatened to resign. Instead of being received at the supreme leader’s official residence, he was reportedly informed that the meeting would take place at an undisclosed location elsewhere in Tehran. According to the report, Pezeshkian’s security team dropped him at the secret location, where he was taken from his vehicle and seated in the back of a commercial car with tinted windows. The report said Mojtaba Khamenei was already inside the vehicle. The area was reportedly so dark that neither man could see the other, while guards did not allow them to shake hands. The conversation was conducted entirely through voice. The treatment reportedly left Pezeshkian angry and humiliated. According to people in the president’s office cited by the outlet, he later asked whether the person sitting beside him had actually been the supreme leader because he had only heard a voice in the dark. The report said it remains unclear whether the remark reflected genuine doubt or frustration over the circumstances of the meeting. It also claimed that Pezeshkian later requested a second meeting at the supreme leader’s official residence, but the request has so far been refused.