Iran’s president says Supreme Leader has granted government authority in negotiations

The signal here is less the statement itself than the delegation it implies: a Supreme Leader's grant of negotiating authority, however undefined, is the mechanism by which Tehran can talk while keeping political cover. With the scope and the counterpart left unstated, the market-relevant question is whether this is a narrow technical mandate or something broader — and whether it precedes any concrete diplomatic track. For now it reads as positioning rather than a shift, and the absence of specifics is the story.