Iran parliament speaker says US violated key clauses of proposal, calls talks ‘unreasonable’

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said Wednesday the US has violated three key clauses of Iran’s 10-point proposal ahead of planned negotiations, describing further talks as “unreasonable.”

In a statement on the US social media company X, Qalibaf said Iran’s “deep historical distrust” toward the US stems from its “repeated violations of all forms of commitments — a pattern that has regrettably been repeated once again.”

He noted that the US president had described Iran’s proposal as a “‘workable basis on which to negotiate’ and the main framework for these talks.”

“Three clauses of this proposal have been violated so far,” he added.

Qalibaf listed the violations as “non-compliance with the ceasefire in Lebanon,” which he said had been described as “an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and other regions, effective immediately,” a commitment that Pakistan’s prime minister had also “explicitly referred to.”

He also cited “the entry of an intruding drone into Iran airspace, which was destroyed in the city of Lar in Fars Province,” calling it “a clear violation of the clause prohibiting any further violation of Iran airspace.”

The third violation, he said, was the “denial of Iran’s right to enrichment, which was included in the sixth clause of the framework.”

Qalibaf said “the very ‘workable basis on which to negotiate’ has been openly and clearly violated, even before the negotiations began.”

“In such situation, a bilateral ceasefire or negotiations is unreasonable,” he added.

After Pakistani mediation, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, saying Tehran presented a “workable” 10-point proposal for negotiations.

The announcement came less than two hours before the expiration of a deadline Trump had repeatedly extended for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and accept an agreement or face “the destruction of an entire civilization.”