The speaker of the Iranian Parliament on Tuesday issued a statement that said the U.S. had violated key parts of its 10-point proposal for peace, concluding that “in such situation, a bilateral ceasefire or negotiation is unreasonable.”
The statement came from the Iranian Parliament’s speaker, Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf, amid signs that a ceasefire reached Tuesday could be faltering.
Iran had made a 10-point proposal that Qalibaf characterized in his statement on the social platform X as a “workable basis on which to negotiate” and a framework for talks.
He then said three points of the proposal have been violated.
The first, Qalibaf said, were the continued attacks by Israel on Lebanon, the home of the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah.
Iran says the ceasefire agreed to Tuesday covered Lebanon, while the U.S. and Israel have said the deal does not cover Lebanon. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who helped negotiate the ceasefire, on Wednesday called for “an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and other regions, effective immediately.”
Qalibaf pointed to Sharif’s remarks in his statement.
He also said a drone had flown into Iranian airspace and was destroyed in the city of Lar, a further violation of Iranian airspace.
He also referred to remarks by President Trump, who said Iran would not be allowed to enrich uranium, which could be used for a nuclear weapon. Qalibaf said Iran’s right to enrichment was part of its 10-point proposal.
“The deep historical distrust we hold toward the United States stems from its repeated violations of all forms of commitments – a pattern that has regrettably been repeated once again,” he wrote.
President Trump had said the proposal was a “workable basis on which to negotiate,” a statement that would not reflect a U.S. agreement to all of its terms.
