Iran’s New Leader Oversaw Ceasefire Deal With U.S., Axios Says

Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei closely supervised the final stages of the ceasefire deal with the United States, according to an Axios report citing sources familiar with the negotiations.

The report said Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi played a key role in managing the diplomacy and helping persuade influential commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to back the negotiating track.

According to Axios, U.S. President Donald Trump remained undecided until the final hours over whether to accept Iran’s 10-point proposal as a basis for talks or press ahead with wider military escalation.

The report said that while Trump was publicly threatening the destruction of Iranian infrastructure and even “a whole civilization,” intense backchannel diplomacy was unfolding through mediators to secure a ceasefire. Reuters separately reported that the agreement was reached less than two hours before Trump’s deadline.

Axios said U.S. commanders in the Middle East had been preparing for broader strikes on Iran’s infrastructure until Trump ultimately accepted the truce and informed mediators, including Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and army chief Asim Munir.

According to the Axios account, Mojtaba Khamenei’s intervention was essential because of the sensitivity of the decision and the fragmented wartime chain of command, with key messages reportedly relayed through handwritten or messenger-based communications due to security threats.

Reuters has separately reported that Iran later portrayed the ceasefire as a victory and said Trump had effectively accepted Iranian conditions as the basis for ending hostilities, even as U.S. officials publicly framed the outcome as a success for Washington.

The reporting suggests that even as both sides traded public threats, the eventual ceasefire depended on a narrow and highly secretive decision-making process inside both Washington and Tehran.

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