No decision will be made in Iran without the permission of the Supreme Leader, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, after US President Donald Trump said a peace deal had already been “largely negotiated”.
Pezeshkian also stated that no decisions would be made outside the structure of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran’s constitutional authority for national defense and security.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since his posse in March, which sparked speculation about his health and whereabouts after joint US and Israeli attacks killed his father and predecessor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Earlier this month, Iranian state media reported that Khamenei met with a top military commander. No photographs or videos of the meeting were released.
One includes commitments by Iran not to pursue the development of nuclear weapons and to begin negotiations to give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium and suspend any further enrichment, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Details of how the stockpile would be removed and the length of a moratorium on enrichment would be worked out in future negotiations.
