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A military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei warned on Sunday against optimism over talks with the United States, saying Washington had turned to negotiations after failing to force Iran into surrender.

“The United States was supposed to use its ‘peace through strength’ strategy to force Iran to surrender,” Mohsen Rezaei said in a post on X. “Now that they have failed, they are insisting on negotiations out of desperation.”

The former IRGC commander added that that “any optimism will be exploited by the enemy.”

Amir Ebrahim Rasouli, political adviser to Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Saturday called for identifying the person behind what he described as the disclosure of confidential state information following recent remarks by lawmaker Seyyed Mahmoud Nabavian.

Rasouli said the focus should not be on the resignation of a state TV manager or on Nabavian himself, but rather on uncovering who provided him with what he called “state secrets.” In a post on X, he urged Iran’s Supreme National Security Council to identify and confront the “hidden force behind Nabavian” and prevent similar incidents in the future.

A diplomat attending the talks told CBS News on Saturday that an emergency session addressing the Israel-Hezbollah conflict has been added to the first day of peace talks in Switzerland.

The source said the issue will be the opening session when US and Iranian delegations begin negotiations.

Neither Israel, Hezbollah nor the Lebanese government are party to the negotiations. The report added that allowing Iran to introduce the Israel-Hezbollah conflict into the agenda marks a shift in US strategy.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday reposted a message originally shared by Donald Trump Jr. on Truth Social, amplifying a post criticizing US foreign policy and negotiations.

The original post argued that past US strategies had resulted in significant costs and rejected criticism of negotiations from what it described as the “architects of failure.” Trump shared the message with the comment: “This times 1000000000!”

Channel 14 News reported on Saturday that Israeli forces seized an underground command center built by Iran for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

"Israeli forces have seized a strategic, Iranian-built Hezbollah underground command center on the Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon. Hundreds of terrorists are believed to be trapped inside as the IDF dismantles the infrastructure," Channel 14 posted on X.