\n Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has met with a senior military commander \u2013 the second in-person meeting Khamenei has had within the last few days, according to Iranian state media.\n <\/p>\n
\n Khamenei met with Maj. Gen. Ali Abdollahi, the commander of military headquarters, according to the semi-official Fars news agency, and received a report \u201con the readiness of Iran\u2019s armed forces.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n No photographs or video of the meeting were published. No images of Khamenei have been published by Iranian media since he was inaugurated<\/a> in March after US-Israeli strikes killed his father and predecessor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a>, leading to speculation about his health and whereabouts.\n <\/p>\n \n Abdollahi said that Iranian forces were in a state of high readiness, with \u201cthe necessary equipment and weapons to counter hostile actions by the American-Zionist enemies.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIn the event of any strategic mistake, aggression, or attack by them, they will respond swiftly, intensely, and powerfully,\u201d Abdollahi was quoted as saying.\n <\/p>\n \n Khamenei said that Iran had \u201cthwarted the enemies from achieving their evil goals\u201d and issued new instructions to powerfully confront the enemies, according to the Fars account.\n <\/p>\n \n Iran\u2019s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said on Thursday he had held a two-and-a-half-hour meeting with Khamenei, marking the first reported in-person meeting between a top Iranian official and the country\u2019s new supreme leader.\n <\/p>\n \n Pezeshkian did not specify when it took place.\n <\/p>\n