{"id":338321,"date":"2025-10-18T11:32:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=338321"},"modified":"2025-10-18T11:32:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:32:21","slug":"iranian-officials-split-over-russia-economics-and-talks-with-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iranian-officials-split-over-russia-economics-and-talks-with-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Officials Split Over Russia, Economics and Talks with Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_335506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335506\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-335506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ali-larijani-boarding-plane-10082025.jpg\" alt=\"Ali Larijani \u2014 now the Iranian regime\u2019s Secretary of the Supreme Security Council \u2014 boards a plane on February 11, 2019\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ali-larijani-boarding-plane-10082025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ali-larijani-boarding-plane-10082025-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ali-larijani-boarding-plane-10082025-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ali-larijani-boarding-plane-10082025-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ali-larijani-boarding-plane-10082025-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ali-larijani-boarding-plane-10082025-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ali Larijani \u2014 now the Iranian regime\u2019s Secretary of the Supreme Security Council \u2014 boards a plane on February 11, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Four-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"199\" data-end=\"937\">The clerical regime in Tehran is increasingly consumed by infighting over nearly every decision touching its survival \u2014 from foreign policy gambits and economic triage to internal power balances among rival factions. The latest flashpoint came with the sudden dispatch of Ali Larijani, Secretary of the regime\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, to Moscow \u2014 reportedly carrying a message from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to Vladimir Putin. What state media portrayed as a routine diplomatic mission instead triggered an avalanche of recriminations across parliament, the Revolutionary Guard\u2019s ranks, and the regime\u2019s own press, exposing a leadership mired in distrust, contradiction, and fear of political collapse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"720\" data-end=\"1117\">State-affiliated website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rouydad24.ir\/fa\/news\/432388\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruydad24 described<\/a> Larijani\u2019s visit as a \u201csecret mission\u201d that coincided with a long telephone conversation between Putin and former U.S. President Donald Trump. The timing, Ruydad24 suggested, prompted speculation that Moscow may be seeking a mediating role between Tehran and Washington \u2014 a proposition that has inflamed tensions among the regime\u2019s pro- and anti-Russia camps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1119\" data-end=\"1582\">Hardline commentators seized on the possibility of rapprochement with the West as a trap. Within hours of Trump\u2019s public remarks offering conditional engagement with Iran \u2014 on terms including a cessation of proxy activity and recognition of Israel \u2014 conservative outlets branded the proposal \u201ca new deceit\u201d and warned against naive rapprochement. Some regime figures accused domestic rivals of \u201cplaying in Trump\u2019s field\u201d by advocating any contact with Washington.<\/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>\u2019s Power Struggle: A Fractured Regime Hiding Behind Bold Rhetoric<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SzNeQLYdh4\">https:\/\/t.co\/SzNeQLYdh4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1978820649062735975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1119\" data-end=\"1582\">Strategic disputes<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1584\" data-end=\"2111\">At the same time, senior security voices publicly signaled alarm at political defections and loss of unity within the system. Abdollah Haji Sadeghi, Khamenei\u2019s representative in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranntv.com\/957997-%D8%B5%D8%AD%D8%A8%D8%AA-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A2%D8%AE%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AC%DB%8C-%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%82%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87-%D8%AC%D9%86%DA%AF-%D9%88-%D8%AC%D8%AF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned in a speech<\/a> at Qom that some who once proclaimed revolutionary zeal are now \u201crepenting\u201d and defecting from core tenets \u2014 a development he called \u201cdeeply worrying.\u201d His comments were widely read as a direct critique of factional rivals and an effort to rally hardline cohesion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2113\" data-end=\"2762\">Meanwhile, veteran security and parliamentary figure Heshmatollah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rouydad24.ir\/fa\/news\/432388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Falakhteh-Pisheh blasted<\/a> the strategy of deepening ties with Moscow, arguing that overreliance on Russia is a strategic dead end. \u201cIf Larijani\u2019s mission aims at divorcing Iran\u2019s fate from the hegemonic games of Russia, then it risks continuing the ruinous course begun in 2021,\u201d Falakhteh-Pisheh said, adding pointedly that Russia\u2019s military calculus is not a substitute for independent Iranian strategy. His comments reflect a growing alarm among some conservative nationalists and technocrats over the costs of the Tehran-Moscow security partnership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2764\" data-end=\"3290\">The spat over Larijani\u2019s mission is only the most visible symptom of a wider political crisis. President Masoud Pezeshkian \u2014 who has repeatedly cast his appeals in moral and managerial terms \u2014 struck a conciliatory tone in public addresses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irna.ir\/news\/85969241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">urging \u201cunity\u201d<\/a> while repeatedly acknowledging the scale of failures in governance. Speaking in Isfahan, Pezeshkian declared, \u201cWe sleep on gold but go hungry \u2014 the fault is ours, not America\u2019s,\u201d and warned that internal strife posed a greater danger to the system than external threats.<\/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>\u2019s Power Structure Buckles Under Political, Economic, and Nuclear Pressure<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/abvkCn5vAj\">https:\/\/t.co\/abvkCn5vAj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1965397294435762556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2764\" data-end=\"3290\">Crying louder than the people<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3292\" data-end=\"3790\">Pezeshkian\u2019s blunt admission underscored two interconnected stress points: an acute economic breakdown and an elite unable to present a unified response. <a href=\"https:\/\/tejaratnews.com\/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D9%BE%D8%B2%D8%B4%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D9%88%D8%B6%D8%B9%DB%8C%D8%AA-%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%98%D9%87%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He pointed<\/a> to stalled infrastructure \u2014 \u201cnearly 5 million billion tomans in idle projects\u201d \u2014 as evidence of managerial failure and rent-seeking. His message of internal cohesion has been met unevenly; opponents argue that appeals to unity are hollow without accountability and economic reform, while allies view them as necessary damage control. Yet his public lamentations \u2014 framed as empathy with the suffering population \u2014 serve mainly to project an image of a \u201ccompassionate\u201d government, masking the regime\u2019s structural corruption and its absolute unwillingness to change course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3792\" data-end=\"4407\">Fuel policy and price reform have become an additional flashpoint. Officials close to the president\u2019s office have begun preparing public opinion for gasoline price adjustments, citing soaring consumption and fiscal strain. Communications deputy Tabatabai and spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani have both floated the idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khabaronline.ir\/news\/2130341\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rationalizing fuel pricing<\/a> to &#8220;curb waste and smuggling.&#8221; Yet even within the pro-government camp, there is fear that any sizable hikes \u2014 opponents have suggested increases that could reach several hundred percent in some scenarios \u2014 would trigger unrest similar to previous price-shock protests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"4409\" data-end=\"4762\">Parliamentary voices have amplified the discord. Some MPs denounced fuel hikes as \u201creaching into people\u2019s pockets,\u201d urging anti-smuggling measures and targeted quota systems instead of blanket price shocks. Others blasted ministers and central bank officials for corruption and mismanagement, reflecting deep frustration across Tehran\u2019s political class.<\/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 MPs Threaten Foreign Minister Araghchi Amid Nuclear Infighting <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kpDzSrWbsW\">https:\/\/t.co\/kpDzSrWbsW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1966910701676752969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"4409\" data-end=\"4762\">Rigid rivalry over everything<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"4764\" data-end=\"5167\">Taken together, the diplomatic maneuvering, public recriminations and economic alarm point to a regime increasingly riven by competing survival strategies: accommodation with external powers, rigid resistance and internal reformist rhetoric. Each strategy has powerful patrons within the system \u2014 security organs, conservative media, technocratic ministries \u2014 and each threatens to undermine the others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"5169\" data-end=\"5602\">Observers say the consequence is strategic paralysis. Foreign policy becomes harder to coordinate when factions fear that a rival\u2019s gain will translate into political marginalization; economic stabilization is impossible while elites fight over who will control scarce rents; and social stability is endangered when the state publicly debates whether to raise fuel prices while admitting to massive idle projects and financial waste.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"6010\" data-end=\"6430\">For now, Tehran\u2019s factional war plays out in the open: public speeches, state television denunciations, parliamentary shouting matches and sharply worded commentary in outlets aligned with competing power centers. The visible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iranian-regime-infighting\/irans-power-struggle-escalates-as-state-media-admits-setbacks-snapback-tightens-and-the-street-simmers\/\">nature of these fights<\/a> \u2014 rather than closed elite maneuvering \u2014 suggests a regime less able to manage internal disputes out of public view, and therefore more vulnerable to erosion of authority.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"6432\" data-end=\"6765\">If these fractures continue to widen, analysts forecast, the clerical establishment may find it increasingly difficult to pursue coherent foreign policy or the disciplined economic adjustments the country needs. Instead of resolving its crises, the regime risks being consumed by the very disputes it manufactures to consolidate control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-minute read The clerical regime in Tehran is increasingly consumed by infighting over nearly every decision touching its survival &mdash; from foreign policy gambits and economic triage to internal power [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":335506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,5450],"tags":[5482],"class_list":{"0":"post-338321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-iranian-regime-infighting","9":"tag-iranian-regime-infighting"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iranian 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