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Iran's supreme leader criticised its foreign minister, who said in a leaked interview that the elite Revolutionary Guards had more influence in foreign affairs

Opinion Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during Friday prayers in Tehran September 14, 2007. Photo: REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/File Photo In late March, news of the conclusion of a 25-year Iran-China strategic agreement shook the world and caused a sensation inside Iran. The Islamic Republic appears to have ceded almost all of Iran’s natural and mineral resources, infrastructure, and markets to China for a quarter century, in exchange for security guarantees against the West. Although President Joe Biden has expressed concern over Iran’s tilt toward the East, he remain...

wrote that the reason for this suspicion is Parsi’s relationship with former Iranian UN ambassador and current Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif. Email exchanges between Parsi and Zarif “show the NIAC founder seeking to arrange meetings and perhaps coordinate on strategy.” At the time of contact, Zarif was at the Permanent Iranian Mission to the UN. The communication took place over email, as in the case of Afrasiabi. In 2008, Parsi sued exiled Iranian journalist Hassan Daioleslam for defamation because Daioleslam had asserted that NIAC and Parsi were lobbying on behalf of the Isla...

the SL, the GC, the DC, and the Assembly While the Assembly is the most important organ with regard to the appointment of a new SL, the power and influence of the GC and the DC are also considerable. The bodies surrounding Khamenei will also influence the selection. Those bodies include the Office of the Supreme Leader, which employs thousands and has its own intelligence, counterintelligence, and protection organizations. The power of the Office cannot be ignored. The Office has a complex bureaucracy, with hundreds of commissions, organizations, and advisors. Many of its key figures have bee...