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Friday, May 29, 2026
Iran’s Ghalibaf says Tehran will ‘achieve its rights not through dialogue, but with missiles’
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Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf says in a post on X that the Islamic Republic will “achieve its rights not through dialogue, but with missiles.”
Ghalibaf says that Tehran does not trust guarantees and words, and would judge by actions, adding that Iran would not act unless the other side did first.
“The victor in any agreement is the one who plans better for the war on the day after,” he writes.
The United States and Iran reached an agreement on Thursday to extend their ceasefire and lift restrictions on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, sources told Reuters, though US President Donald Trump has yet to approve it, and Iranian state media says it has not been finalized.
The deal has also changed in recent days, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reports.
۱-ما امتیازات را نه با گفتگو، بلکه با موشکها میگیریم، در مذاکره فقط آنها را تفهیم میکنیم.
۲- هیچ اعتمادی به تضمینها و حرفها نداریم، فقط رفتارها معیار است. اقدامی پیش از اقدام طرف مقابل انجام نخواهد شد.
۳-پیروز هر توافق، کسی است که از فردای آن بهتر برای جنگ آماده شود.
— محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf) May 29, 2026
Correction: This item initially stated that Ghalibaf posted in Hebrew. He did not.
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