Unconfirmed reports have emerged claiming that Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian has told Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei he wants to resign.<\/p>\n
Iranian opposition news outlet Iran International<\/a> published the bombshell claim, which reported that a letter was sent to the Supreme Leader\u2019s office on Sunday.<\/p>\n The outlet claimed that the Iranian President had become frustrated by the IRGC, which reportedly has taken control of government affairs while the US-Iran war endures.<\/p>\n Sign up to The Nightly’s newsletters.<\/p>\n Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cPezeshkian stressed that the president and the government have effectively been excluded from major and vital decision-making processes in the country, and that the vacuum created by this situation has enabled hardline factions within the IRGC to take control of affairs,\u201d the outlet reported according to a source.<\/p>\n Mr Pezeshkian reportedly said he was unable to run the country\u2019s government due to those issues and made a request to step down immediately.<\/p>\n Reports have echoed the claims in Israeli and US media.<\/p>\n Tasmin News Agency, an Iranian state news outlet, disputed the claims, saying the Iranian President continues to perform his duties.<\/p>\n The Iranian Supreme Leader, who has not been seen publicly since his father was killed by a US-Israeli strike, may choose not to accept the president\u2019s reported resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unconfirmed reports have emerged claiming that Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian has told Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,12241,44,84,41,39,42,40,1720],"class_list":["post-707218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}