{"id":89422,"date":"2026-03-24T16:42:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/dasha-burns-white-house-looking-for-the-delcy-rodriguez-of-iran-pahlavi-not-on-the-table\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:42:02","slug":"dasha-burns-white-house-looking-for-the-delcy-rodriguez-of-iran-pahlavi-not-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/dasha-burns-white-house-looking-for-the-delcy-rodriguez-of-iran-pahlavi-not-on-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Dasha Burns: White House “Looking For The Delcy Rodr\u00edguez Of Iran,” Pahlavi “Not On The Table”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Politico WH reporter Dasha Burns spoke about her new report<\/a> about the Trump administration test-driving Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad \u2060Bagher Ghalibaf, as someone they can make a deal with. The 64-year-old former IRGC commander reportedly met with U.S. negotiators<\/a> over the weekend in Pakistan. “He’s a hot option,” one administration official told Politico. “He’s one of the highest\u2026But we got to test them, and we can’t rush into it.” <\/p>\n

DASHA BURNS, WHITE HOUSE BUREAU CHIEF, POLITICO: They are not looking at an opposition-backed transition right now. They are not looking to bring in an outsider. In fact, officials I spoke to told me Reza Pahlavi, the exiled prince that some people are looking to as a potential leader-that is not on the table for somebody that the U.S. would back. Instead, they are looking right now at the Speaker of Parliament as a potential partner for the United States, and possibly a leader that the United States could work with. Now, he is-you talked about the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard-he’s a former IRGC commander. He is a power broker, and he is not a moderate necessarily, again to Hagar’s point. But this is somebody that the United States believes might be someone on the inside that could potentially have a pragmatic streak and be willing to make a deal with the United States. I keep hearing the Venezuela comparisons. In fact, both officials that I spoke to made those parallels, where they did not go with Maria Machado, the leader of the opposition. They kept a regime leader in place. They made a deal. And then they made a deal on oil, which is another piece that the president is interested in. And that’s partially why you’ve seen him be so careful when it comes to Kharg Island, where a lot of Iran’s oil infrastructure is. He’s hoping that he can make a peace deal and then make a deal to get the U.S. some access to that oil. So again, that Speaker of Parliament right now is, as one official told me, the hot option. But they are testing potential options now. Whether or not the U.S. is in fact in a position to decide who the next leader is-that’s a big question. But right now, the president thinks that he is in that position. And one of the warnings that officials told me is: look, if we’re going to test these leaders-it might be the Speaker, it might not-if they’re too radical, we’ll take them out. We’ve already taken out a bunch of their leaders. … hey are not looking at an opposition-backed transition right now. They are not looking to bring in an outsider. In fact, officials I spoke to told me Reza Pahlavi, the exiled prince that some people are looking to as a potential leader-that is not on the table for somebody that the U.S. would back. Instead, they are looking right now at the Speaker of Parliament as a potential partner for the United States, and possibly a leader that the United States could work with. Now, he is-you talked about the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard-he’s a former IRGC commander. He is a power broker, and he is not a moderate necessarily, again to Hagar’s point. But this is somebody that the United States believes might be someone on the inside that could potentially have a pragmatic streak and be willing to make a deal with the United States. I keep hearing the Venezuela comparisons. In fact, both officials that I spoke to made those parallels, where they did not go with Maria Machado, the leader of the opposition. They kept a regime leader in place. They made a deal. And then they made a deal on oil, which is another piece that the president is interested in. And that’s partially why you’ve seen him be so careful when it comes to Kharg Island, where a lot of Iran’s oil infrastructure is. He’s hoping that he can make a peace deal and then make a deal to get the U.S. some access to that oil. So again, that Speaker of Parliament right now is, as one official told me, the hot option. But they are testing potential options now. Whether or not the U.S. is in fact in a position to decide who the next leader is-that’s a big question. But right now, the president thinks that he is in that position. And one of the warnings that officials told me is: look, if we’re going to test these leaders-it might be the Speaker, it might not-if they’re too radical, we’ll take them out. We’ve already taken out a bunch of their leaders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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