Ghalibaf: ambitious 'public face' of post-Ali Khamenei Iran

AI Summary

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian parliament speaker, has become a central figure in Iran's leadership post the US-Israeli war. He has acted as the key negotiator and public face, steering the high-stakes talks that culminated in a ceasefire agreement.

Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has emerged as the key negotiator and one of the most high-profile figures in the Islamic republic's leadership as it enters a new phase after the US-Israeli war. A pillar of the Iranian establishment for some three decades and one of its most prominent non-clerical figures, Ghalibaf, 64, had spearheaded the war effort and led the high-stakes negotiating process that culminated with an agreement announced Monday to halt the hostilities.