A senior Iranian official, Rezaei, has formally pushed back against swirling unsubstantiated reports that purported newly installed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei could roll back the longstanding fatwa issued by his late predecessor Ali Khamenei, which categorically bans the development, stockpiling, and deployment of nuclear weapons in Iran. During a recent public briefing addressing national security and diplomatic priorities, Rezaei clarified that no formal new deliberations or decisions related to the landmark anti-nuclear weapon edict have been tabled within Iran’s top leadership circles, dismissing the viral speculations as ungrounded. The high-ranking official also shed light on the current trajectory of Iran’s tentative diplomatic outreach to the United States, confirming that his office had received an official correspondence from U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, though he noted that a formal response to the communication has not yet been drafted or dispatched. Per a prior exclusive report from The Wall Street Journal that cited anonymous senior U.S. administration insiders, Vance sent the letter under explicit directives from sitting U.S. President Donald Trump, with the core goal of jumpstarting long-paused bilateral peace negotiations between the two nations. Parallel unconfirmed disclosures about closed-door indirect diplomatic talks held in Doha, Qatar, indicate that negotiators have logged incremental, meaningful progress across three core priority areas: reaching a mutually verifiable framework for Iran’s civilian nuclear program, negotiating the phased rollback of sweeping U.S. economic sanctions imposed on Tehran in recent years, and locking in binding shared commitments to safeguard unimpeded commercial navigation through the strategically critical Strait of Hormuz, a global chokepoint that carries roughly 20% of the world’s total oil trade volume.