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Source: https://houseofsaud.com/mojtaba-met-irans-war-commander-ceasefire-died-in-that-room/
Iranian Leader Issues New Operational Directives for War
(House of Saud-Saudi Arabia) F. Hadid - Around May 10, Maj.-Gen. Ali Abdollahi, Iran's joint command chief, met with supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei. What came back from the other side of that table were new operational directives for war - "new guiding measures to pursue military operations and firmly confront adversaries," Iran's Fars News reported. The meeting doesn't resolve the debate about who runs Iran. It resolves the question of whether anyone above the operational commanders is willing to issue new orders, in writing, during a war. Someone just did. Since early March, every diplomatic initiative has run into the same structural problem: nobody could guarantee delivery. Pakistan's Asim Munir brokered a ceasefire on April 8 that Iran's own military violated within hours. Iranian diplomats would agree to frameworks that Iranian commanders would then ignore. Whether you believe Mojtaba is genuinely commanding or merely rubber-stamping, the institutional form of supreme-leader-issues-military-directives has now been performed, documented, and broadcast through every state media channel. If you are a diplomat sitting in Islamabad or Doha trying to construct a ceasefire framework, this tells you your counterparty's internal politics have been settled - and not in your favor. Every offer currently circulating now runs upward into a command structure that has already issued operational orders. A diplomatic proposal that requires Iran to stand down its military posture must now explicitly override a supreme leader's directive.