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The new Iranian power that emerged from the war with the United States and Israel celebrates the “victory” over its enemies – who according to the military had even “surrendered” – but has to deal, on the internal front, with the discontent of the ultra-conservatives, mitigated only by the rapid recovery of the economy.
Victory proclamations
«Iran has imposed its divine and iron will on its humiliated American and Zionist enemies: the enemy has no choice but to accept defeat and surrender», was the Iranian army’s debut on the comment on the agreement with Washington. “They thought they could inflict serious damage, but their calculations turned out to be completely wrong,” added General Amir Hatami, commander-in-chief of the military. Along the same lines, the chief negotiator and president of Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, is among the most important figures in the new map of power in Tehran: with its “historic resistance”, he wrote, Iran has taken “a big step towards final victory”. General of the Pasdaran, Ghalibaf represents a link between politics and the other great power in the country.
The line of diplomacy
The register of Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, a profile of the moderate face of the Islamic Republic, is different, as he took the opportunity of the agreement to reiterate the request to put a “definitive end” to Israel’s attacks in Lebanon, in a round of phone calls with his counterparts in Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. A line appreciated by Hezbollah, which celebrated “the unprecedented resistance of the Iranian people and their wise leadership”.
The internal front of the ultra-conservatives
However, there is internal opposition that promises battle. Tehran MP Mahmoud Nabavian, considered the most hostile to the agreement, went on state TV to argue that “the text erases all the military and defense progress achieved on the field”. Fars, the Pasdaran’s press agency, gave ample coverage to a night rally in Qom, where parliamentarian Mohammad Mannan Raisi asked Iranian leaders not to sign the agreement on Sunday: “It is the birthday of the assassin of the Supreme Leader, have honor.”
The word to the new Guide
Now the last word belongs to Mojtaba Khamenei, the new Supreme Leader, while appeals for the unity of the country are multiplying from figures such as Hassan Khomeini, nephew of the founder of the Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.