Iranian parliament speaker warns US will face ‘firm blow’ if it attacks amid negotiations

By AP 25 February 2026, 12:10 pm

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Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf (2-L)) and his Lebanese counterpart Nabih Berri (L) walk together after their meeting in Beirut on October 12, 2024. (AFP)

Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker, says the US can either continue with diplomacy or face Iran’s wrath.

“If you choose the table of diplomacy — a diplomacy in which the dignity of the Iranian nation and mutual interests are respected — we will also be at that table,” Qalibaf says, according to the semiofficial Student News Network, a media outlet believed to be close to the all-volunteer Basij force of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.

“But if you decide to repeat past experiences through deception, lies, flawed analysis and false information, and launch an attack in the midst of negotiations, you will undoubtedly taste the firm blow of the Iranian nation and the country’s defensive forces.”