He advised Muhammad Baqir QalibafChairman of the Shura Council and chief negotiator Iran In discussions with US, Washington By “taking notice” of her statements after the US President’s threat Donald Trump By re-bombing it, coinciding with the start of new negotiations by both parties Switzerland.
Qalibaf wrote on the X platform: “Don’t they see that if their threats had any effect, they would not be in a state of despair now? We do not take American threats into account.”
He added: “It is better for them to pay attention to what they say. Our armed forces are ready to respond to them in a different way. Whatever they say, we are the ones who take action.”
Trump had called on Iran to prevent its allies in Lebanon from “stirring up trouble,” in reference to… Hezbollah Who he is having a confrontation with Israelunder penalty of resuming strikes on its territory.
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He said in a post on his social platform, Truth Social, in reference to the confrontations between Israel and Hezbollah: “Iran must immediately stop its generously supported proxies in Lebanon from causing trouble. If it does not, we will hit Iran hard again, just as we did last week, but with greater force!”
These statements come as Tehran and Washington held their first negotiating sessions in Switzerland, mediated by Pakistan and Qatar, since signing a memorandum of understanding this week aimed at ending hostilities in the Middle East once and for all.
Iranian Fars News Agency reported that Trump’s threats led to the suspension of the talks, but official sources did not immediately confirm this.
The first clause of the memorandum of understanding signed by Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, remotely on Wednesday, specifically stipulates that the two countries are committed to refraining from threatening or using force against each other.
