Why Iran's generals are intensifying anti-US rhetoric amid negotiations
Leading figures within Iran's military and security establishment have framed the memorandum with Washington not as an end point but as a conditional arrangement tied to battlefield realities.
TEHRAN — Iran's emerging post-war diplomacy with the United States is unfolding alongside an increasingly assertive military discourse at home, where commanders are sending sharply different signals about the durability of the recently signed memorandum of understanding.
While expert-level negotiators in Switzerland continue follow-up discussions mediated by Pakistan and Qatar, Iran's military establishment has escalated warnings directed at both the US and Israel, particularly over the contentious issues of Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz.
The contrast has become one of the defining features of the post-war environment: a cautious diplomatic track layered over an overt deterrence posture. In the eyes of the Iranian establishment, this is not a contradiction but calibration.
The most striking message has come from Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani — commander of the Quds Force, the overseas wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — as he directly addressed Israeli forces in Hebrew, state media reported on Monday.
