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| Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf |
As strikes continue, Tehran insists it will not be the side to initiate negotiations with the United States. It's argued that escalating military pressure may be achieving the opposite of Washington’s objective.
“If the U.S. believes it can compel Iran to seek negotiations through greater military force and pressure, it is making a serious miscalculation.”
The Strait of Hormuz remains a key flashpoint, and what Iranian officials conveyed to Oman before the closure remains unknown.
US can not in anyway no dictate of the outcome of the escalations in the middle east.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its Navy and Aerospace Force carried out the eighth wave of Operation Nasr 2 in response to overnight attacks on Iran’s southern coast and cities, Tasnim reported.
The IRGC said the combined missile and drone operation struck and destroyed the C-RAM early-warning radar system at Ali Al-Salem base in Kuwait, and also hit a location where US troops were gathered.
The statement also slammed the US for using Kuwaiti territory to carry out aggression against Iran, warning that American aggression launched from regional bases will continue to face retaliation.
Iran’s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says Tehran has never welcomed war, but it must always be ready to fight and stand until the end to safeguard its national security and interests
"We must also use the tools of diplomacy and negotiations to realize and secure our national interests", Ghalibaf says
If Iran is not going to benefit from the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the US, it has no reason to adhere to it, he added. Negotiations at this stage are not equivalent to compromise, but, along with war, are part of the strategy of resistance and protection of our national interests."
" Separating and choosing either negotiations or war as the only solution is a strategic error", he added
Iran's Foreign Ministry directly rejects Trump's claim that Tehran called to make a deal, with spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei stating: "We have no plans for negotiations at the moment and are focused on defense. This is a principle and the same path will be followed in the future."
He said the Islamic Republic would uphold its commitments under the memorandum of understanding as long as the other side did the same, warning that any breach would prompt reciprocal action.
“The other side has violated its commitments and broken its promises from the outset of the memorandum of understanding, and the Islamic Republic will respond proportionately both in the field and in implementing its commitments,” Baghaei said.
He added that Iran’s armed forces had repeatedly shown that any act it regarded as aggression would be met with a reciprocal response.
Also, Iran summoned the British ambassador in Tehran over the UK’s move to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under the Countering State Threats Act, the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency reported Wednesday.
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