Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian announced on Thursday, May 7th, that he had recently met in person with Mojtaba Khamenei, the Islamic Republic’s new Supreme Leader. Pezeshkian, speaking during an unscheduled meeting with trade union and bazaar representatives at the Ministry of Industry in Tehran, gave no details of when or where the meeting took place, but confirmed the conversation lasted nearly two and a half hours in what he described as a warm and unmediated atmosphere.