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Iran parliament speaker says ceasefire only makes sense if US stops blocking country’s ports
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran’s parliament speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says that a complete ceasefire only makes sense if it is not violated by the US blockade of Iranian ports.
Ghalibaf says in a post on X that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz is impossible with such a “flagrant breach of the ceasefire.”
The US and Israel “did not achieve their goals through military aggression, and they will not achieve them through bullying,” he warns. “The only way is to accept the rights of the Iranian people.”
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