Iran to resume ‘proportionate measures’ if US, Israel breach MoU, warns Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Friday warned that Tehran will respond in kind if the US and Israel fail to uphold the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreed between Washington and Tehran last month.

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

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

Ghalibaf further claimed that Washington has come to recognise that it cannot confront Iran through military means.

While Israel was not involved in negotiating the memorandum, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly distanced himself from the agreement.

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However, the opening clause of the deal — which permanently ends the war and rules out any future resumption of hostilities — states that it is binding on the United States, Iran, “and their allies.”

Israeli officials have strongly criticised the agreement, arguing that it fails to address the central objectives of the war, including dismantling Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs and creating conditions that could lead to the collapse of the Iranian regime.

With inputs from agencies