Conservative sectors in Iran are reacting against some points of the reported agreement between the country and the United States.
US President Donald Trump suggested that a memorandum would be signed today — his 80th birthday. However, there has been no confirmation from Tehran that a final text has been agreed.
A leading Iranian hard-liner, Mahmoud Nabavian, said that if Iran signs the deal, “we will effectively become a colony of the United States.” According to him, the understanding would mean opening the “even to Israel”.
“If we want to carry out even the smallest amount of uranium enrichment, we would first have to obtain authorization from the United States — including for purposes such as producing medicines or electricity,” Nabavian added.
He also said it was unclear when Iran would benefit from the release of its frozen assets abroad or the .
“The more signals of weakness we send, the closer war will come to us,” Nabavian said in a television interview.
The text of the agreement has not yet been officially released.
Several Iranian media outlets also warned against internal divisions.
The Javan newspaper, considered close to the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran), stated that some speakers at public demonstrations were ignoring instructions from the supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, and “acting to sow schism and division among the population”.
Participants in a rally in Tehran on Saturday called for the resignation of Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, according to videos posted on social media.
Protesters also recalled the assassination, at the beginning of the conflict in February, of Khamenei’s father — the then supreme leader — chanting the slogan:
“Ghalibaf, Araghchi—and the blood of my leader?”
Ali Rabiei, an ally of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, countered the criticism this Sunday and warned against the creation of “artificial narratives”.
