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Financial Times: Iranian officials seek to show the Supreme Leader still holds power

2026.05.21, 13:11
Financial Times: Iranian officials seek to show the Supreme Leader still holds power

According to a report published by the Financial Times on Thursday, Iranian officials’ recent statements are aimed at showing that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei remains in control of the country and will make the final decision on a possible agreement with the United States to end the war.

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The report says officials have begun speaking more openly about Khamenei’s condition amid rumors that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is effectively running the decision-making process.

“They are trying to show that nothing has changed… the Supreme Leader was the apex of the system and still is the apex,” said Vali Nasr, a former US official and professor at Johns Hopkins University. “He is alive, functioning, and in control.”

Nasr added that the IRGC is also trying to send the message that “Khamenei is not just a figurehead.”

The report also refers to comments by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Mazaher Hosseini, a senior official in the office of the Supreme Leader.

Pezeshkian said earlier this month that he had met the Supreme Leader, marking the first public confirmation of a meeting with Mojtaba Khamenei since he was severely wounded at the start of the Iran war on February 28.

Hosseini later said that Khamenei suffered minor injuries to his kneecap, back, and behind his ear in airstrikes that killed his father and wife, insisting that he is now in “full health” and dismissing claims of a serious brain injury as “lies.”

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