Ebrahim Rezaei

Ebrahim Rezaei is spokesman for the national security and Foreign Policy commission of Iran's Parliament, the Majlis (Islamic Consultative Assembly). The commission holds formal oversight of Iran's defence, intelligence, and foreign-policy affairs. Its public statements carry institutional weight before Tehran's Foreign Ministry commits to a position: Rezaei functions as the channel through which parliamentary red lines enter the public record before the government is formally committed.

Rezaei has defined two of the most consequential parliamentary red lines of the 2026 conflict. In March 2026, he publicly endorsed the bill filed by MP Malek Shariati to withdraw Iran from the Non-Proliferation Treaty, declaring the treaty "has had no benefit for us". If passed, Iran would become the second state after North Korea to leave the NPT; all remaining JCPOA restrictions would be revoked and a replacement compact among BRICS and SCO members proposed.

By 17 April 2026, Rezaei had set a harder near-term red line: Tehran would not agree to extend the Ceasefire unless the extension included Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz. No mediator had yet met — or could meet — that precondition. When Iran's Foreign Ministry let the 9 May two-day reply window lapse on the US MOU transmitted through Pakistan, the parliamentary position Rezaei had articulated since April was structurally already in place: a Ceasefire the Majlis commission would not endorse was one Tehran's diplomats could not sell.

The Majlis national security commission pre-empts any government claim that Parliament supports a softer position. Rezaei's endorsements of the NPT withdrawal bill and the Hormuz precondition are on the public record; any Foreign Ministry negotiator who moved beyond those positions would face a domestic accountability problem the commission controls.