Pezeshkian’s Fox interview Baier asks about war

Sep 24

Bret Baier interviews Pezeshkian about negotiations, the June memorandum, ship attacks and command authority. Pezeshkian disputes protest death figures, describes meeting the supreme leader and denies knowledge of Chinese imagery alleged to have helped target a deadly Jordan strike. He offers uranium dilution and verification within an agreement, acknowledges economic hardship and rejects surrender. Baier challenges the answers with competing accounts; disputed casualty figures, responsibility and conditional proposals remain attributed.

In the September 24 Fox interview, Baier says Revolutionary Guard forces fired on three ships and set a Qatari gas tanker on fire after the June memorandum. He cites a reported call in which commander Ahmad Vahidi allegedly denied authorizing the attacks, challenges who controls Iran and asks who could guarantee compliance. The broadcast does not establish whether the gas tanker was included among the three ships. Pezeshkian says an envisaged coordination team was never established, cites misunderstandings and mistrust, and argues that communication channels were needed to prevent incidents. He also invokes the U.S. withdrawal from the earlier JCPOA and disputes why the later negotiating framework broke down; Baier counters that the IRGC attacked tankers. Fox's immediate Yingst discussion questions Iranian compliance and the civilian president's authority. IRINN's next-day recap attributes the missing coordination mechanism to U.S. breaches. On September 28 Fox replays only the opening team explanation; Brit Hume alleges Iran violated the MOU from the start and questions Pezeshkian's authority. The fuller September 24 answer remains available. These conflicting explanations and analyses do not establish a new agreement, functioning coordination team or independently resolved responsibility. The June memorandum's signing and subsequent ship attacks remain distinct historical occurrences.