Amid the triangular war between Israel-Iran-America, Iranian President Masoud Pejeshkian apologized for the attack on Gulf countries. He said that now Iran will not attack neighboring countries unless there is an attack from there.
In such a situation, the question is who will listen to President Pejeshkian? Does Iran’s leadership place any value on the President’s words? After Khamenei’s death, who is taking decisions in Tehran at this time?
Many reports of American and British media clearly say that President Pejeshkian has always been an outsider in Iran. He never got the space in the room that he might have desired. The post of Supreme Leader has always been the highest in Iran. In such a situation, now the value of his son Mojtaba Khamenei is more than Pezeshkian.
According to the report, although he is the elected president, he does not have the authority of hard-liners like Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or the remaining commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Pejeshkian was the first heart surgeon. Then elected in 2024 as a relative moderate, he has always been an outsider in Iran’s leadership.
According to the report, the people with real power in Iran’s leadership are in favor of continuing the war. In such a situation, even Pejeshkian’s apology to the Gulf countries has no value. Iran will do only what its leadership asks it to do.
In a post on his Truth social account, Trump claimed that Iran has “apologized and surrendered” to its Middle East neighbors following days of intense military standoff between the US and Israel. In a strongly worded statement, Trump said Iran had promised it would “not shoot at them anymore,” and attributed the change to continued U.S. and Israeli attacks.
Trump accused Tehran of aspiring to “take over and rule the Middle East”, and said the current situation is the first time in “thousands of years” that Iran has lost to nearby regional powers. He further claimed that Iranian representatives had thanked him directly, saying, “Thank you President Trump,” to which he replied, “You’re welcome.”