Iran: Negotiations Have Become Meaningless, Agreement Terms Violated from the Start
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, after listing violations, stated, “Under current circumstances, bilateral ceasefire or negotiations are no longer feasible.”
He emphasized that Iran’s 10-point proposal constituted a “feasible basis for negotiation” and core framework. Yet previously, the White House had declared these proposals were “thrown into the trash.”
Ghalibaf stressed, “This viable negotiating framework was openly and clearly violated before negotiations even began.”
He noted that by the time negotiations were originally scheduled to start, three clauses had already been breached:
1. Failure to comply with the first clause of the 10-point proposal regarding a ceasefire in Lebanon—“immediate cessation of hostilities across the entire territory, including Lebanon, effective immediately”;
2. A drone entering Iranian airspace, openly violating provisions banning any further incursions into Iranian sovereignty;
3. Denial of Iran’s right to uranium enrichment, which is stipulated in the sixth clause of the framework—a condition Iran considers essential for negotiations.
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Negotiations Effectively Announced as Dead
Iran has effectively pronounced the death sentence on U.S.-Iran talks, abandoning procedural discussion and instead closing the door to dialogue outright by citing U.S. violations—taking an extremely hardline stance.
Iran will no longer negotiate a U.S.-Iran ceasefire in isolation; instead, it has bundled Lebanon’s situation, the drone intrusion, and uranium enrichment rights as prerequisites—effectively setting an almost unattainable threshold for the United States.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1861951762426880/
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