Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf gave a lengthy interview in which he stated that the United States “must give up the spirit of imposition.”
“The peace negotiations between Iran and the United States have ‘made progress’ but a final agreement is ‘still far away,’ said the powerful president of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, on Saturday.
“We are still far from closing the debate,” Mr. Ghalibaf said in a long interview on Iranian television. He participated in the negotiations on April 11 and 12 in Islamabad, facing an American delegation led by Vice President JD Vance. “We have made progress in the negotiations, but there are still many differences and some fundamental points remain unresolved,” he added.
During the Islamabad meeting, which was the highest-level meeting between the two countries since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, “we emphasized that we have absolutely no trust in the United States,” Mr. Ghalibaf declared. “The United States must decide to gain the trust of the Iranian people,” he continued, adding: “They must give up unilateralism and the spirit of imposition in their approach to dialogue.”
According to him, Iran only accepted the two-week ceasefire, which came into effect on April 8, because the United States asked them to. “We were victorious on the ground, the enemy had not achieved any of its goals, and Iran also had control of the Strait of Hormuz,” he said. “If we accepted the ceasefire, it was because they had accepted our demands.”
