{"id":22465,"date":"2026-07-02T03:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=22465"},"modified":"2026-07-02T03:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:50:04","slug":"pezeshkian-u-s-talks-would-not-have-occurred-without-supreme-leaders-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/07\/02\/pezeshkian-u-s-talks-would-not-have-occurred-without-supreme-leaders-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Pezeshkian: U.S. talks would not have occurred without Supreme Leader\u2019s approval"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that negotiations with the United States would not have taken place if Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had opposed them.<br>Responding to domestic criticism on Wednesday, Pezeshkian stated that the decision to engage in negotiations had been made through Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council and was supported by 12 of the council\u2019s 13 members.<br>He added that the Supreme Leader had previously stated that if three-quarters of the members of the Supreme National Security Council approved a particular course of action, that path should be pursued.<br>According to Pezeshkian, if the country\u2019s leadership ordered that negotiations should not take place, neither meetings nor talks with the United States would have been held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that negotiations with the United States would not have taken place if Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had opposed them.Responding to domestic criticism on Wednesday, Pezeshkian stated that the decision to engage in negotiations had been made through Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council and was supported by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22467,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465\/revisions\/22467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}