Iranian radicals sabotaged Tehran peace agreement with Trump, says NYT

Sa more conservative Iranian faction is behind the attack on a Qatari flagship in the Strait of Ormuz on July 7, without the knowledge of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian or the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guard Ahmad Vahidi.

The article, based on anonymous sources, states thatit was not known that a radical faction had decided to act on its own, which contributed to the collapse of negotiations with Donald Trump's administration, who resettled the naval blockade to Iran on July 14 after the attacks.

“ These clandestine efforts frustrated the impetus of the moderatest pragmatics in Iran to end hostilities with the United States and the recovery of the country’s weakened economy.”, indicates the text, quoted by the Spanish news agency EFE and based on testimony from five senior Iranian officials and two members of the Revolutionary Guard.

The diary claims that the radicals succeeded, in part, because the new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the only figure with authority to settle such disputes, has not appeared in public since March.

The news appears on the same day that President Trump declared that the United States “will leave” Iran “unless” Washington decides to “hold oil,” after on Saturday he stated that the war would end after the U.S. mid-term elections on November 3.

The current phase of the U.S. blockade of Iran began on July 14, at Trump's request, when the ceasefire agreement that he had signed with the Islamic Republic on June 17, in response to Tehran's persistent attacks on ships in the Strait of Ormuz ended.

About 20% of world-wide hydrocarbons passed through the Strait of Ormuz before the conflict began in late February, triggered by Israeli-American attacks against Tehran.

Following this, Iran launched attacks on the wealthy oil monarchies of Washington and claimed control of the strait, leading the United States to impose, in retaliation, a blockade of Iranian ports.