WANA (Apr 09) – Iran’s Parliament Speaker said that following “three clear violations of key provisions in the agreed framework prior to the start of negotiations,” neither a bilateral ceasefire nor further talks hold any meaning under the current circumstances.

 

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, in a statement posted on the social media platform X, wrote that the Islamic Republic of Iran had from the outset approached the process with distrust and, as anticipated, the United States had once again violated its commitments even before formal negotiations began.

 

Referring to remarks by the U.S. president that Iran’s ten-point proposal constituted a “workable basis and framework” for talks, he stressed that despite this position, three key provisions of the framework have already been openly violated.

 

Ghalibaf cited the first violation as the failure to adhere to the clause concerning a ceasefire in Lebanon—a clause which, he said, Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif had also explicitly emphasized, describing it as an “immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and other areas.”

 

The second violation, according to the Parliament Speaker, was the incursion of a hostile drone into Iranian airspace, which he said was shot down in the city of Lar in Fars province. He described the incident as a clear breach of a provision in the framework that prohibits any renewed violation of Iran’s airspace.

 

According to Ghalibaf, the third violation relates to the denial of Iran’s right to uranium enrichment, an issue that he said had been explicitly affirmed in the sixth clause of Iran’s proposed framework.

 

He further stated that even the “basic framework for negotiations” has now effectively lost three of its key provisions and has been openly undermined before formal talks could even begin.

 

Ghalibaf concluded the statement by emphasizing: “Under such circumstances, neither a bilateral ceasefire nor negotiations have any meaning.”