Iran's Hardliners Called the Doha Deal a Coup. The Speaker Who Helped Sign It Is Trying to Prove Them Wrong.
TEHRAN, July 3 -- Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf holds one of the three most powerful positions in the Islamic Republic. He is speaker of parliament, a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander, and a two-time presidential candidate who lost both races to more moderate figures. On July 2, he told state media that Tehran would grant the IAEA "no access beyond what has been authorized by the Supreme National Security Council" - as hawkish a position on inspections as the Iranian political spectrum can produce. It did not help him. On the same day, ultra-conservative factions in the parliament and press accused him, along with President Masoud Pezeshkian, of orchestrating a "coup" through the June 17 memorandum of understanding signed wit...
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