Test paragraph 5

Iran’s side is equally complicated. With Khamenei dead, the question of who has authority to end this war has no clean answer. Iran’s president does not hold the same final decision-making power the Supreme Leader had, and the Revolutionary Guards operate with considerable institutional independence. Even if the president privately wanted to explore ceasefire terms, converting that into an official state position would require a politically perilous internal process. The Revolutionary Guards would frame any such move as a betrayal of the revolution, making public endorsement of negotiations essentially impossible for civilian officials.