Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday said the ‘old American order’ in West Asia had collapsed, while warning that two ‘strategic errors’ within Iran’s political and elite circles could weaken the country’s ability to respond to the ongoing conflict.
‘Iran has announced 7 conditions for starting any negotiations to the US government.
Addressing the Iranian Parliament, Ghalibaf said Iran had demonstrated over the past seven months that it would not remain passive in the face of aggression. He said Tehran’s approach was focused on advancing its interests and imposing the will of the Iranian people. But unfortunately, in the elite and political atmosphere of the country, there are two strategic errors that both simplify reality,’ he said. Ghalibaf said the first error was an approach that called for war without defining a mechanism or timeframe for bringing it to an end. At the opposite end is a trend that makes the mistake of underestimating national power; it considers Iran weak and, by instilling fear, twists the version of surrender and acceptance of the enemy’s unilateral terms,’ said the head of Iran’s negotiating team. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said in a post on X that Tehran had communicated seven conditions to the US government for the start of negotiations. Tehran’s message is clear and unambiguous; if Washington wants to escape the quagmire it has created for itself and avoid getting further entangled in it, it has no choice but to accept Iran’s rights and conditions,’ Rezaei said in the post.
‘In the past seven months, we have shown that we are not tied up in the face of aggression. Our logic in confronting the enemy is to advance intelligently and impose the will of the Iranian people. ‘First, a view that speaks of war but has no horizon or mechanism for its authoritative end. By denying any interaction and diplomacy, this view practically leads the country towards erosion and endless war without calculating the possibilities.
