Iran’s Ghalibaf: Tehran will react proportionately if Israel, US do not stand by MOU

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says it will respond proportionately if the United States and Israel do not honor the Memorandum of Understanding reached last month between Washington and Tehran.

“We will firmly demand the full implementation of the understandings that have been reached,” Ghalibaf says during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart, Igor Sergeyenko, according to the ISNA state media outlet.

“If the United States and the Zionist regime do not honor their commitments, the Islamic Republic of Iran will resume its proportionate measures,” he says.

Ghalibaf also asserts that the US has realized it cannot tackle Iran militarily.

Israel had no part in negotiating the memorandum of understanding, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has distanced himself from it. Still, the terms of the opening clause, permanently ending the war and ruling out any resumption, assert that it is binding on the US, Iran “and their allies.”

Israeli officials are bitterly opposed to the deal’s terms, which resolve none of the war’s key goals — notably, eliminating Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs and creating the conditions for the collapse of the regime.