Milan, 4 Aug. (LaPresse) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has denied reports suggesting he was about to resign. “We are working in full coordination with the armed forces. I will not resign and I will stand firm in my position,” he said in an interview to be broadcast on state television, “if I were to resign, I would announce it formally”. The first to circulate rumours of Pezeshkian’s resignation was Mohammad-Bagher Kharrazi, a senior cleric whose sister is married to the Supreme Leader’s brother, Mojtaba Khamenei. It was he who claimed that Pezeshkian had threatened to resign “28 times”, but had then stopped after being warned that his forthcoming resignation would be accepted. In May, Iran International reported that Pezeshkian had submitted a letter of resignation to Khamenei’s office, stating that his government had been excluded from the most important decisions and that the hardliners had taken control of affairs.
Iran: rumours of Pezeshkian’s resignation, he denies them
Milan, 4 Aug. (LaPresse) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has denied reports suggesting he was about to resign. “We are working in full coordination with the armed forces. I will not resign and I will stand firm in my position,” he said in an interview to be broadcast on state television, “if I were to resign, I would announce it formally”. The first to circulate rumours of Pezeshkian’s resignation was Mohammad-Bagher Kharrazi, a senior cleric whose sister is married to the Supreme Leader’s brother, Mojtaba Khamenei. It was he who claimed that Pezeshkian had threatened to resign “28 times”, but had then stopped after being warned that his forthcoming resignation would be accepted. In May, Iran International reported that Pezeshkian had submitted a letter of resignation to Khamenei’s office, stating that his government had been excluded from the most important decisions and that the hardliners had taken control of affairs.
