Imam Hussein University, which is affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has issued two separate public statements in a week warning officials in Hassan Rouhani's administration about its foreign policy and the nuclear negotiations. The statements came shortly after a public visit by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader who addressed the college in front of some of the IRGC’s top commanders.
The June 1 letter signed by the school's “professors, students and staff” used the occasion of anniversary of the death of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, to review his last message about foreign policy to draw parallels in dealing with “world powers,” specifically, the United States.