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A man and a woman ride in a car with a dog past a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, October 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s judiciary said on Saturday that its chief held a rare meeting with the country’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has yet to appear in public since being appointed.

Mojtaba Khamenei was chosen in March to succeed his father and longtime ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes in central Tehran alongside senior military commanders at the start of the war in late February, and was said to have been injured and deformed in the same attack.

Judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei and the supreme leader discussed issues including “securing public rights, and effectively combating corruption and its bottlenecks,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported.

They held talks on “pursuing the recovery of rights and compensation for material and moral damages arising from the…