The Iranian hardline daily Kayhan, citing an article circulated via Telegram channels, accused President Masoud Pezeshkian of misjudging the United States and abandoning the duty to avenge the late supreme leader. The article demands that Pezeshkian apologize to the Iranian people and leadership and return to a policy of absolute resistance to negotiations with the US, which it calls the 'Great Satan'.
The Iranian hardline daily Kayhan, which is closely aligned with the office of the supreme leader, published an article Saturday evening sharply criticizing President Masoud Pezeshkian's approach to negotiations with the United States. The article, as reported by Iranian Telegram channels, asserts that both the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, opposed negotiations with the US in principle but allowed the government to try the process. It claims that Pezeshkian misjudged America's nature, abandoned the duty to avenge the blood of the late leader and thousands of Iranians killed, and must now apologize to the public and leadership and return to the path of absolute resistance to the 'Great Satan'.
The article is the latest in a series of hardline attacks on Pezeshkian's diplomatic engagement with the Trump administration, which has seen the signing of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding earlier this year. As The Zioneer has reported, Kayhan previously called for the assassination of President Trump in retaliation for the killing of the supreme leader. The newspaper's criticism reflects deepening internal divisions within Iran's establishment over the direction of US-Iran relations.
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