IRAN PERSPECTIVE

Tehran covers the sequence as a validation of its regional doctrine. Mehr News headlines "No peace without Zionist regime withdrawal from Lebanon: IRGC" — the official Revolutionary Guards formulation becomes the Iranian frame. The article restitutes Qassem's position and covers it as the legitimate stance of an actor under occupation, not as a refusal of peace. Mehr also publishes "Why does Iran insist on including Lebanon in the ceasefire deal?" — an explanatory piece that articulates the Axis of Resistance doctrine: Lebanon and Iran are two fronts of the same war, negotiating one without the other is impossible. Mehr News continues with an article on General Ghaani's statements demanding Israel return to its pre-40-day-war positions — a reference to the February 2026 war that pitted Iran against the United States and Israel. IRNA, the official agency, adds an ideological dimension: "USA, West does not want Iran to be a model of perseverance and justice" — a quote from Naim Qassem that becomes an Iranian argument in the domestic debate on resistance. The Iranian coverage is coherent, dense, articulated. Tehran does not treat the Hezbollah rejection as a failure but as a strategic victory: as long as Qassem refuses the deal, the axis holds. The Iranian silence on the death of Israeli soldier Lemberg is as telling as the marginal coverage of the Serbian UN peacekeeper — for Tehran, only the deaths of the "camp of resistance" matter in editorial grammar.