{"id":330495,"date":"2025-04-13T21:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T20:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=330495"},"modified":"2025-04-13T21:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T20:46:59","slug":"tehran-in-turmoil-regime-officials-turn-on-each-other-as-u-s-talks-expose-deep-internal-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/tehran-in-turmoil-regime-officials-turn-on-each-other-as-u-s-talks-expose-deep-internal-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran In Turmoil: Regime Officials Turn On Each Other As U.S. Talks Expose Deep Internal Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_330496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330496\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-majlis-infighting-mehdi-kuchakzadeh-december-2024-e1744574592336.jpg\" alt=\"MP Mehdi Kouchakzadeh confronts Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf during a heated public session of the regime\u2019s Majlis\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-majlis-infighting-mehdi-kuchakzadeh-december-2024-e1744574592336.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-majlis-infighting-mehdi-kuchakzadeh-december-2024-e1744574592336-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-majlis-infighting-mehdi-kuchakzadeh-december-2024-e1744574592336-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-majlis-infighting-mehdi-kuchakzadeh-december-2024-e1744574592336-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-majlis-infighting-mehdi-kuchakzadeh-december-2024-e1744574592336-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-majlis-infighting-mehdi-kuchakzadeh-december-2024-e1744574592336-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-330496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MP Mehdi Kouchakzadeh confronts Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf during a heated public session of the regime\u2019s Majlis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Three-minute read<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the clerical leadership has long insisted that \u201cnegotiation with the Great Satan\u201d is dishonorable and strategically suicidal, high-ranking officials are now scrambling to rationalize Khamenei\u2019s decision to authorize the April 12 talks. The result: a visible fracture between hardline loyalists who seek to distance themselves from a potential diplomatic failure, and officials tasked with defending the regime\u2019s embarrassing U-turn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis Saturday was a bad day. Still is,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/fararu.com\/fa\/news\/853090\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote MP Mehdi Kuchakzadeh<\/a> on his Telegram channel. \u201cToday, the shameless ones sacrificed honor\u2014and sacrificed the people too. The whole week will be grey.\u201d In the parliament session that followed, he revealed: \u201cParliament has no information about these negotiations. Even [MP Hasan] Ghashghavi told me, \u2018I\u2019m on the nuclear committee and still know nothing.\u2019\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaker Mohammad Bagher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entekhab.ir\/fa\/news\/860576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghalibaf quickly intervened<\/a>, claiming, \u201cParliament has certainly been informed\u2026 No action has been taken outside legal frameworks.\u201d But the damage was done. Kuchakzadeh\u2019s words had confirmed what many already suspected: the regime is operating in a black box, and even its own aligned legislators are being kept in the dark.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iranian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iranian<\/a> Regime Officials Undermine Khamenei\u2019s Authority as Discord Grows Over U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nuclear?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nuclear<\/a> Talks<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QU5xbCtUO6\">https:\/\/t.co\/QU5xbCtUO6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1910985384890163628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abbas Araghchi, the regime\u2019s Foreign Minister and a veteran nuclear negotiator, tried to calm the waters. \u201cWe had about two and a half hours of indirect talks,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tasnimnews.com\/fa\/news\/1404\/01\/23\/3290186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he told state TV<\/a>. \u201cThe session was constructive and held in a respectful environment.\u201d He described the negotiations as part of a process, with a second round planned for next Saturday. \u201cNo party wants fruitless, time-wasting talks,\u201d he added\u200b.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But not all officials were willing to defend the regime\u2019s pivot. MP Amir-Hossein Sabeti, in a statement laced with sarcasm, <a href=\"https:\/\/fararu.com\/fa\/news\/853442\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>: \u201cWe don\u2019t care what happened after the Leader declared that negotiations with the U.S. are neither honorable nor wise. Suddenly, the whole idea [of talks] was resurrected. Maybe one day it will be exposed who authorized it.\u201d Sabeti warned that unless the banking and oil sanctions are lifted, any agreement would merely \u201cdeepen our economic dependency\u201d and \u201cbring even harsher sanctions.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime\u2019s playbook is all too familiar. Khamenei authorizes negotiations in secret, while trusted lieutenants publicly attack the process \u2014 preparing the political ground to blame negotiators if talks fail. It\u2019s the same tactic used in 2018, when then-President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif were left politically exposed after Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>&#39;s Clerical Regime Rattled by Internal Splits and Nuclear Escalation Threats<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mr5tVUjNNu\">https:\/\/t.co\/Mr5tVUjNNu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1910304820235284850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, as history repeats itself under Massoud Pezeshkian\u2019s administration, regime clerics are once again preparing their exit ramps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Qom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asriran.com\/fa\/news\/629808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protesters held signs<\/a> that read: \u201cWhoever calls for negotiation\u2014Farah\u2019s swimming pool awaits him,\u201d a reference to the suspicious death of former President Rafsanjani and a thinly veiled threat against those seen as betraying the regime&#8217;s ideological red lines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki attempted to justify the reversal by portraying the talks as an opportunity to \u201ctest the seriousness of the Americans.\u201d Still, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamshahrionline.ir\/news\/936968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he conceded<\/a>: \u201cThe first strategy of the U.S. is regime change. The second is behavioral transformation. They\u2019ve never had the will to solve the problem.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even state media like <em>Kayhan<\/em> offered thinly disguised warnings. \u201cThe path to agreement with Trump is unclear,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/kayhan.ir\/fa\/news\/308655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the column read<\/a>. \u201cDon\u2019t freeze the country again. The last time, under Rouhani, we tied every sector to diplomacy and got nothing but ruin.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Internal Defections Cripple <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Regime Ahead of High-Stakes U.S. Negotiations<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ltDtsBU1P\">https:\/\/t.co\/2ltDtsBU1P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1909683670237008273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the escalating pushback, some officials are still clinging to the narrative of strength. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei insisted that the talks are \u201cbased on national interests\u201d and accused foreign media of \u201cfabrication.\u201d But in the same breath, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isna.ir\/news\/1404012311914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he admitted the regime<\/a> is not optimistic about the outcome: \u201cThis is only a beginning. We don\u2019t expect this round of negotiations to be long.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the regime&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has opted for silence on the actual content of the talks. Instead, he staged a public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/khameneis-defiant-display-masks-iranian-regimes-unease-amid-u-s-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meeting with the heads<\/a> of regime\u2019s armed forces on April 13, praising the country\u2019s \u201cprogress\u201d and insisting that \u201ceven our enemies express admiration.\u201d He called for \u201cmaximum readiness\u201d among Iran\u2019s military ranks, declaring: \u201cWhat makes the enemy hostile is not the name of the Islamic Republic, but our independent resolve.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the contradiction is glaring. In February 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/why-irans-regime-cannot-negotiate-with-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Khamenei stated<\/a> that negotiating with the United States is &#8220;unwise, unintelligent, and dishonorable,&#8221; asserting that there should be no negotiations with such a government.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Khamenei Rejects Talks\u2014But His Advisors Say Otherwise. Why?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3qvPRGr2Pw\">https:\/\/t.co\/3qvPRGr2Pw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1905708790793867414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Friday prayer leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tasnimnews.com\/fa\/news\/1404\/01\/22\/3289350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amir Mohammadipour<\/a> of Kermanshah bluntly put it: \u201cThe Islamic Republic has not changed its stance. We still do not negotiate with those who break their promises. What\u2019s happening in Oman is indirect\u2014and we\u2019ve done this before.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, behind closed doors, the regime appears far more desperate than it lets on. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entekhab.ir\/fa\/news\/860651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MP Abolfazl Zohrevand<\/a>, a former diplomat and current member of the national security committee, dropped the mask: \u201cIf the Americans bring something worth hearing, we will listen. Even welcoming [U.S. envoy] Steve Witkoff to Tehran would not be off the table.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Such remarks would have been unthinkable even months ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime is now caught in a bind of its own making\u2014unable to sustain its rejectionist mythology and equally unable to fully embrace diplomacy without alienating its radical base. As tensions rise and the economic crisis deepens, Iran\u2019s rulers are playing both sides of a dangerous game\u2014negotiating abroad, while fueling rage at home to keep their fractured coalition intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-minute read As the clerical leadership has long insisted that &ldquo;negotiation with the Great Satan&rdquo; is dishonorable and strategically suicidal, high-ranking officials are now scrambling to rationalize Khamenei&rsquo;s decision to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":330496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5450],"tags":[1175],"class_list":{"0":"post-330495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nuclear","8":"category-iranian-regime-infighting","9":"tag-iran-nuclear"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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