August 06, 2021
The Supreme Leader’s website has posted a five-minute video from 2012 showing him lashing former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani for advocating talks with the United States. Many people saw this as a signal that Ali Khamenehi was preparing to end talks over reviving the JCPOA. But few noted that several weeks after Khamenehi tongue-lashed Rafsanjani in 2012, Iran went into secret talks in Oman with the United States, talks that soon grew into the negotiations producing the JCPOA.
