Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, currently in hospital after a routine surgery, prayed for the success of President Hassan Rouhani and his administration on Saturday.

"I always pray for you," the Supreme Leader told President Rouhani who visited the Leader at a Tehran public hospital for the second time after his successful prostate surgery on September 8.

 

President Rouhani met Ayatollah Khamenei after the former arrived from Tajikistan where he attended the 14th summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

 

The SCO meeting was held in the Tajik capital city of Dushabe on Friday.

President Rouhani addressed the gathering and also held separate meetings with leaders of the participating countries on the sidelines of the summit.

 

"All leaders of the SCO's member states, President Vladimir Putin of Russia in particular, offered their warm greetings to you," President Rouhani told the Leader of the Islamic Revolution.

 

The President referred to his bilateral meetings with the SCO's leaders as "constructive" and "good".

 

President Rouhani made his first visit to the Leader in hospital on September 8 hours after Ayatollah Khamenei's surgery and before the President left Tehran for Astana in Kazakhstan on the first leg of his five-day tour to the Central Asia.