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Iran's president says interaction with supreme leader is currently 'very difficult'

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said in an interview aired by state TV on Wednesday that interaction with the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is currently “very difficult”, Reuters reports.

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