Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, in Baku to attend the 20th Conference of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC), said yesterday that the U.S.-Iran MOU was not the result of pressure but the result of the Iranian nation’s strength. He described it as a “declaration of U.S. defeat.”
“The Islamabad MoU was not the result of pressure and coercion, but rather the product of the resistance and strength of the brave Iranian nation, an understanding that showed dialogue reaches a result when the other side refrains from imposing its will on a civilized nation and accepts our rights. For this reason, the Islamabad memorandum turned into a declaration of US defeat,” he said, reported IRNA.
Ghalibaf said the steadfastness of Iran’s Armed Forces and the resistance of the Iranian people had imposed heavy costs on the United States and “the fake Israeli regime.” “This resistance, born of faith, caused the enemy to lose hope of achieving its objectives and forced it to surrender both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table,” he said. He argued that the war was not merely a military confrontation but a coordinated effort to alter the region’s strategic balance and impose external will on an independent nation. The planners of the aggression, he went on, believed military pressure, blockade, psychological operations, and terrorist actions could force Iran to retreat and reshape regional equations in their favor.
