President Donald Trump returns to the White House in Washington on May 15, 2026. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
President Donald Trump said that Iran’s top leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is involved in peace talks with the United States but that he suffered injuries during an airstrike earlier this year.
“He’s involved, absolutely. Yeah, I think they have a lot of respect for him,” Trump told The New York Post’s “Pod Force One” in an interview, referring to Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since he was named to the top Iranian leadership position after his father, Ali Khamenei, was killed in U.S.–Israeli airstrikes in February.
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