Iran’s hardliners warn of a ‘coup’ as US truce comes under pressure

As Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian walked alongside the coffin of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran last week, some of the black-clad mourners surrounding him chanted not in tribute to the late leader, but directly at him – “death to the compromiser.” Not far from that site, Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s top diplomat who negotiated a …