Iran, attack on Israel postponed. Pezeshkian convinces Ayatollah Khamenei –

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has reportedly convinced Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to postpone the attack on Israel in response to the July 31 killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. This is according to Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida, citing an Iranian source who said Pezeshkian wants to postpone the retaliation while the United States continues to work to advance ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel. Iran and its allied Shiite militias would also stop hostilities if the Palestinians accepted the ceasefire.

The source also revealed that Khamenei is against attacking Mossad elements in countries neighboring Iran – as the president would like to do, according to what the British Telegraph wrote in recent days – and made it clear that the attack must hit Israeli territory. In any case, no one in Iran, including Pezeshkian himself, can predict what the decision of the Supreme Leader will be, who has the final say, the source warned. Finally, according to the newspaper, the president has managed to delay the attack by at least two weeks, while Khamenei awaits approval of the new government by the Islamic Consultative Assembly, the parliament in Tehran. After the presentation of the new government, there are two weeks to approve the ministers.