{"id":544246,"date":"2026-03-25T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544246\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:35:10","slug":"trumps-15-point-plan-passed-to-tehran-as-iran-says-us-is-negotiating-with-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544246\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s 15-point plan passed to Tehran as Iran says US is &#8216;negotiating with itself&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why hasn&#8217;t the Iranian establishment collapsed yet?published at 08:41 GMT<\/p>\n<p>08:41 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/84235ea3-e168-4601-8945-9467e76fa41f.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Ghoncheh Habibiazad<br \/>Senior reporter, BBC Persian<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Banners of the late Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seen in Tehran on Monday\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1f5a193b-cf49-4a97-932a-f977d1931813.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, ReutersImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Banners of the late Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seen in Tehran on Monday<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s almost been a month since war started and Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed on 28 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some people inside Iran I\u2019ve been speaking to expected the war to end that same day, but it didn\u2019t. And Iran\u2019s establishment is still in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iran has a very complex system of governing the country. While the Supreme Leader holds the highest authority, there is also a parallel state &#8211; the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an institution whose power extends far beyond a formal military mandate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several high-ranking IRGC commanders have been killed during this war and in the conflict last summer. But they have repeatedly said that for anyone killed, there is a replacement ready to take their place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IRGC also controls the Basij, a volunteer militia with an estimated one million members, who are often deployed on the streets to use force to suppress dissent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israel has said it has targeted some Basij checkpoints, but from what I heard from Tehran this week, these forces are still very much present in the city, stopping cars and carrying out searches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When it comes to protests, people inside the country have been threatened by the Iranian authorities, whether through statements or mass text messages, not to come out onto the streets to protest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The internet has also been heavily restricted &#8211; see our previous post &#8211; making coordination among protesters very difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So far, we haven\u2019t seen mass anti-establishment protests erupt in the country since the war began, although state media shows nightly rallies by supporters of the establishment in different cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the person we have yet to see in public is Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, since his succession in early March. So far, we have only seen several written messages from him in Iranian media. Israel had vowed to target him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although the Iranian establishment has replaced its leaders and manned its checkpoints, it has yet to prove it can govern a nation that currently appears to be held together apparently more by force, than by visible authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why hasn&#8217;t the Iranian establishment collapsed yet?published at 08:41 GMT 08:41 GMT Ghoncheh HabibiazadSenior reporter, BBC Persian Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-544246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}