Iran's Ghalibaf says MoU ‘became a declaration of US defeat’

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Wednesday that the Islamabad memorandum of understanding with Washington turned into “a declaration of US defeat.”

“The Islamabad memorandum of understanding became a declaration of the US defeat,” Ghalibaf said in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he was attending a meeting of parliaments from Muslim-majority states.

He said the agreement showed dialogue could succeed only when the other side stopped trying to impose its will and accepted Iran’s rights.

He added that the MOU was not the result of pressure or coercion, but of what he called resistance and power.