Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has declared that the moment has arrived to conclude the conflict, arguing that the Islamic Republic now stands in a position of strength and that the wider world recognizes its victory. Speaking to a gathering of physicians, he insisted that Tehran occupies the high ground of power and dignity, that America stands isolated for its assaults upon schools, hospitals, and civilian infrastructure, and that the present circumstances offer the most advantageous opportunity to bring the fighting to a close. The statement, circulated through Iranian state channels, presents the regime as having endured and prevailed, ready to convert military endurance into a negotiated settlement while still claiming the moral and strategic advantage.

Yet the president’s words reveal more about the limits of his office than about any genuine shift in Tehran’s intentions. Real authority over questions of war and peace resides with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, not with the elected civilian leadership. The Guards, whose institutional survival and ideological identity are bound to perpetual confrontation with the West, have no interest in an outcome that would open the door to a more accommodationist, pro-Western order. Any settlement that genuinely reduced the regime’s revolutionary posture would threaten the very apparatus that sustains it.

The difficulty runs deeper than institutional rivalry. The ideology that animates the Revolutionary Guards—an amalgam of revolutionary Marxism and an ancient, unyielding hostility toward the civilization of the West—cannot simply be set aside when tactical calculations shift. That combination of doctrinal rigidity and civilizational animus ensures that the war will continue in one form or another. Pezeshkian may speak of ending it from a position of strength; those who actually decide will never consent to a peace that risks their own replacement.

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