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Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei has the power to at any time cancel the nuclear deal with world powers, analysts said on Oct. 25.

Yigal Carmon, the president of the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), and Ayelet Savyon, the head of the institute’s Iran desk, wrote in an analysis that Khamenei, in a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, essentially granted himself the power to void the deal.

Carmon and Savyon write that Khamenei is ultimately looking to stall implementation of the agreement in order to hurt Iran’s moderates, headed by Hashemi Rafsanjani and Rouhani, and their chances in February 2016 Majlis and Assembly of Experts elections.

The letter, which set out new conditions for Iran’s implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was posted on Khamenei’s website in Farsi on Oct. 21, tweeted from his Twitter account and posted on his Facebook page in English.

“The set of conditions laid out by Khamenei creates a situation in which not only does the Iranian side refrain from approving the JCPOA but, with nearly every point, creates a separate obstacle, such that executing the agreement is not possible,” Carmon and Savyon wrote.

After Khamenei’s letter was made public, Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani and Rouhani fully accepted the supreme leader’s conditions, Savyon told The Jerusalem Post on Oct. 25.

“A committee will be formed, according to the instructions of Khamenei, which will supervise government activities for the implementation of the agreement,” Savyon said. “By putting the supervising body on the government, it effectively gives Khamenei the power of bypassing the government and further weakening the pragmatic camp.”

Khamenei also had some harsh words for U.S. President Barack Obama, Carmon and Savyon said in their analysis, even going as far as to say that international institutions should prosecute Obama.

Khamenei claimed Obama sent him two letters saying the U.S. president had no intention of undermining the Iranian regime, but continued to support its opponents and even threatened to attack.

One of Khamenei’s conditions in the letter to Rouhani is that the U.S. and Europe provide “solid and sufficient” guarantees that they will drop sanctions before Iran complies with the JCPOA. The letter also rules out any snapback sanctions for Iranian “non-compliance.”

Another of the supreme leader’s conditions says that sanctions against Iran “at every level and on every pretext,” including terrorism and human rights violations, would “constitute a violation of the JCPOA.”

The implication of that condition, Carmon and Savyon say, is that it prevents “any commitment of Iran on any issue and for any reason,” serving “as an excuse for Iran to cancel the agreement.”

The MEMRI analysis adds that another of Khamenei’s conditions insists that any doubts over the implementation of the agreement will be dealt with in talks between Iran and the six powers, which will “paralyze any possibility of executing the agreement.”

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