Iranian President Pezeshkian says "I do not support the continuation of the war, and we must withstand the coming circumstances so that we do not have to negotiate with the enemy under other conditions", Al Jazeera reports

The presidency in Iran has historically been the more conciliatory voice relative to the security establishment and the supreme leader's office, so remarks attributed to the president carry less weight on war-and-peace decisions than signals from the bodies that control the armed forces and the nuclear file. In comparable episodes, markets have treated such rhetoric as a marginal softening of the tail rather than a policy shift: crude tends to shed a portion of any geopolitical risk premium on de-escalatory language, with freight, insurance, and the prompt spread the channels through which Gulf supply risk is expressed. The operative distinction is between a genuine ceasefire track, confirmed by reciprocal statements and mediators, and rhetorical positioning, which past flare-ups have produced repeatedly without follow-through. Worth noting is the attribution to a foreign broadcaster rather than state media, a common route for trial balloons. The tells are whether the supreme leader's office or the Revolutionary Guard echo or contradict the framing, and whether back-channel mediators report movement.