According to Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the United States must “gain the trust of the Iranian people” while giving up “unilateralism and imposition” in their way of dialogue. The resumption of hostilities is still looming over the Iranian regime. On Saturday, April 18 in the evening, the powerful president of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said that peace negotiations between Iran and the United States had “made progress” but a final agreement was still “far away.”
“We have made progress in the negotiations, but there are still many divergences and some fundamental points remain unresolved,” he added.
“We are still far from concluding the debate,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stated in a lengthy interview on Iranian television. He participated in the talks on April 11 and 12 in Islamabad with a US delegation led by Vice President JD Vance.
During this meeting in Pakistan, which was the highest-level meeting between the two countries since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, “we emphasized that we have absolutely no confidence in the United States,” he declared.
“The United States must make the decision to gain the trust of the Iranian people,” he continued, adding: “they must abandon unilateralism and imposition in their approach to dialogue.” He also mentioned that Iran only accepted the two-week ceasefire, which started on April 8, because the United States had requested it.
“We were victorious on the field, the enemy did not achieve any of its (…) objectives, and Iran also had control of the Strait of Hormuz,” he said. “If we accepted the ceasefire, it is because they had accepted our demands.”
Facing the continued American maritime blockade in the strait, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stated that “the state of opening or closing and the regulations governing it will be determined by the battlefield.” Iran thus decided, this Saturday morning, to once again close navigation to tankers attempting to cross.
[Context: Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the president of the Iranian parliament, discusses the progress in peace negotiations with the United States, emphasizing the need for trust and the abandonment of unilateralism and imposition.]
[Fact Check: The US delegation mentioned in the article is led by Vice President JD Vance, however, there is no current Vice President of the US named JD Vance.]
