{"id":337924,"date":"2025-10-06T14:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=337924"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:16:17","slug":"irans-regime-dismisses-gaza-ceasefire-defies-iaea-and-keeps-missile-talks-off-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/irans-regime-dismisses-gaza-ceasefire-defies-iaea-and-keeps-missile-talks-off-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Regime Dismisses Gaza Ceasefire, Defies IAEA and Keeps Missile Talks Off Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iranian military trucks fitted with large missile launchers are seen lined up at a desert base during a display of hardware<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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As the world welcomes a fragile ceasefire and the prospect of ending bloodshed in Gaza, Iran\u2019s clerical regime\u2014battered by overlapping domestic unrest, regional setbacks, and renewed international pressure\u2014has lashed out in defiance. From Friday pulpits to diplomatic briefings, Tehran\u2019s leaders are dismissing the peace initiative as a \u201cdevilish plot\u201d even as they retreat from nuclear cooperation and shut the door on missile talks, revealing a leadership trapped between isolation abroad and instability at home.<\/p>\n

Pulpit as policy: branding peace \u201cdevilish\u201d<\/h2>\n

On October 3, 2025, Tehran\u2019s Friday prayer leader Ahmad Khatami\u2014a close associate of the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei\u2014cast the U.S. president\u2019s peace plan as satanic politics, urging rejection and tying it to threats of \u201csnapback\u201d sanctions. \u201cThis is a devilish plan by Trump\u2026 the Palestinian people did not accept it and will not accept it\u2026 47 years the U.S. could do nothing\u2014you will not be able to do anything by activating the snap-back,\u201d he declared<\/a> from the pulpit in Tehran. The sermon fused ritual slogans with policy lines designed to delegitimize talks before they begin.<\/p>\n

The same day in Birjand, Qassem Shahriari, also Khamenei\u2019s representative, warned Gazans<\/a> that any ceasefire arrangement resembles \u201cour JCPOA\u201d\u2014the 2015 nuclear agreement he said the West never honored. \u201cTell the people of Gaza: this is like our JCPOA\u2014there is no difference. We fulfilled our commitments; they did not. They are not trustworthy,\u201d he said on October 3. By reframing a ceasefire as a repetition of alleged betrayal, the rhetoric seeks to inoculate the regime\u2019s base against diplomatic compromise and to cast peace as a trap.<\/p>\n

Behind such rhetoric lies a deeper fear: genuine calm in the region would strip Tehran of the chaos that sustains its leverage<\/a>. A Middle East moving toward de-escalation threatens the regime\u2019s proxy networks, ideological narrative, and ability to externalize domestic crises.<\/p>\n

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— Ali Safavi (@amsafavi) January 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n