In Iran, Pezeshkian will be the scapegoat for the failed MoU
In Iran, Pezeshkian will be the scapegoat for the failed MoU Putting all the blame on the Iranian president covers up tensions between competing factions...
Key points
- In Iran, Pezeshkian will be the scapegoat for the failed MoU Putting all the blame on the Iranian president covers up tensions between competing factions in Tehran.
- The fate of the memorandum of understanding (MoU), which the US and Iran signed as a framework for peace talks, is now increasingly under question.
- The architecture of a blame game Days after the MoU was signed, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei offered his first public statement on the deal.
- If the MoU delivers, the triumph will belong to Ghalibaf; if it fails, the failure will be blamed on Pezeshkian.
What happened
In Iran, Pezeshkian will be the scapegoat for the failed MoU Putting all the blame on the Iranian president covers up tensions between competing factions in Tehran. The fate of the memorandum of understanding (MoU), which the US and Iran signed as a framework for peace talks, is now increasingly under question. The architecture of a blame game Days after the MoU was signed, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei offered his first public statement on the deal. If the MoU delivers, the triumph will belong to Ghalibaf; if it fails, the failure will be blamed on Pezeshkian. Fractures in Iran’s real ruling bloc The MoU was engineered by Iran’s true ruling bloc: what I have elsewhere called the military-bonyad complex. A presidential circuit breaker Pezeshkian was seen as suitable for the role of president by the ruling bloc precisely because of what he lacks.