Morad Vaisi, senior analyst at Iran International, said: “Mohammad-Bagher Khazaei, the brother of Massoud Khamenei’s wife, revealed with disclosures about severe tensions at the top of the ruling establishment that Mojtaba Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, is tired of Massoud Pezeshkian’s repeated resignations and, if this is repeated, will remove him by accepting his resignation. These remarks indicate an unprecedented escalation of a power struggle between different factions within the Islamic Republic’s political and security structure—a crisis that has now become more openly visible than at any time before.”