Ali Larijani

Parliamentary speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi are the officials removed from the list as Trump attempts to open the door for peace with Tehran.

A resident of Isfahan told TML that if reports of a deal involving Ghalibaf were true, many Iranians would feel “deceived and abandoned, moving from one dictatorship to another.”

Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr was appointed as Larijani's successor as secretary of the SNSC, the Iranian president's deputy of communications posted on X on Tuesday.

In 2015, an American statesman such as Kissinger could sit down with an Iranian official and speak about philosophy.

Iran appears to be entering a transitional phase in which the relationship between clerical authority and military power is being recalibrated.

This war is about an opportunity to dramatically alter the reality that has defined the Middle East - and the possibility that something foundational can change.

In the letter, Amir Saeid Iravani said the UAE’s decision to allow its territory to be used for the strikes constituted "an internationally wrongful act that entailed state responsibility."

The shift in public mood followed reports of the killing of senior Iranian officials, as many appeared to be celebrating what they see as the weakening of the regime’s enforcement forces.

In the wake of the devastation on the political and military echelons of the Islamic Republic, who are some of the most significant figures remaining in Iran?

Araghchi said Iran’s political system will stay intact despite reported assassinations of senior officials, saying “the presence or absence of a single individual does not affect this structure."