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Trump makes peace with Iran's regime and the men Israel once set out to kill
Key takeaways
- Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf's rise was facilitated in part by former supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
- He's mocked US administration officials, claimed Tehran's enemies will not achieve their goals — and declared the June 14 deal, per the semiofficial Fars news agency, "a record of America's failure".
- For months, Donald Trump has spoken of a "new group of leaders" in Iran who were seeking to make a deal with the United States, but not much was known about who they were and what they wanted.
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Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf's rise was facilitated in part by former supreme leader Ali Khamenei. (Getty: Iranian Leader's Press Office)
Link copied Share Share article When Iran and the United States inked a deal on the war this week, one unlikely figure on the Iranian side emerged from the shadows of the negotiations and into the open.
Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a former commander of Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who now serves as parliamentary speaker, has been an outspoken critic of the US and Israel during their conflict with Iran.
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