Did Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian publicly announce his resignation from office as of June 23, 2025? No, that's not true: As of this writing, no such dispatches appeared on websites of credible news outlets. The website of the Iranian president made no such public announcement.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on X on June 22, 2025. It opened:
lran President Masoud Pezeshkian has resigned.
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot by Lead Stories)
A reverse image search did not show that the viral image purporting to be an official resignation letter originated from the websites associated with the Iranian government.
Lead Stories checked both English (archived here) and Arabic (archived here) versions of the Iranian president's website, but neither showed a resignation announcement.
Despite the internet blackout (archived here) experienced by Iran's civilian population amid the June 2025 round of escalation between Israel and Iran, the president's website showed updates published on June 22 and June 23, 2025:
(Source: President.ir screenshot by Lead Stories)
As of June 23, 2025, a search for English keywords seen here (archived here) showed no English-language credible media organization reporting the purported news.
A search for the Arabic keywords seen here didn't produce any announcements confirming the supposed event:
(Source: Google screenshot by Lead Stories; the page was automatically translated to English by Chrome)
The website of The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), which is the official government news agency of Iran, was not accessible, as of this writing, but a search across the website of Tehran-based Mehr News Agency, which is owned by a government entity, produced results (archived here) that were consistent with Pezeshkian remaining in office.
Unlike in many other countries, Iran's president (archived here) is the head of the government, and Masoud Pezeshkian has occupied this position since July 2024 (archived here) when he was elected from a small number of candidates vetted by the country's leadership.
The head of state and commander-in-chief (archived here) in Iran, however, has been the same since 1989: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (archived here).
Khamenei's account on X didn't show a single mention of Masoud Pezeshkian by name in 2025 (archived here).
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Other Lead Stories fact checks concerning the June 2025 conflict between Israel and Iran can be found here.
