🔸 Hassan Rouhani, in a video recently released of him, says that if we are going to fight the major world powers again for another 20 years, we must first ask the people.

🔸 The former Iranian president, on Shahrivar 9, in a gathering of political managers of his government, said that in the Islamic Republic “no one is in power—neither on their own behalf, nor on God’s behalf,” and added: “Whoever holds an office holds it on behalf of the people. The people voted—either directly or indirectly.”

🔸 While Masoud Pezeshkian, the president, and Mohammad-Bagher Qalibaf, the parliament speaker and senior negotiator, talk about a return to the Islamabad agreement and the end of the war with the United States, another part of the government—who consider themselves supporters of Mojtaba Khamenei, the third leader of the Islamic Republic—insists on the continuation of the war and even “pre-emptive operations.”