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Iran's Parliamentary Speaker Ghalibaf says we have nothing new to say and the US cannot gain Iran's trust unless it implements the seven conditions, Mehr reports

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  • In a meeting with Asim Munir, Commander of the Pakistani Army, Ghalibaf, referring to Iran's deep distrust of the US and the Trump administration's violation of the Islamabad MoU, emphasized that the US can only gain Iran's trust by implementing Iran's seven conditions presented in New York.
  • He also stated that Iran is not war-mongering, but is fully prepared to defend its homeland and national dignity, and emphasized that threats and military movements cannot change the strategic decisions of the Islamic Republic, and it is America that must take action to get out of the quagmire of war.

What it means

Statements of this kind sit in the familiar rhythm of US-Iran negotiation theatre: public maximalist conditions from the parliamentary side, paired with a standard denial of war intent, have historically functioned as positioning ahead of any resumption of contact rather than as a break in it. The speaker is a political hardliner whose role in past cycles has been to anchor the upper end of Tehran's demands, so conditions delivered through this channel tend to set the negotiating frame rather than describe actual red lines; the operative signal is usually what the foreign ministry and the supreme leader's office say, or omit. The market channel runs through crude via risk premium on Gulf supply and, at the extreme, transit through Hormuz, with secondary read-through to the dollar and haven FX if escalation risk is repriced; rhetorical exchanges of this temperature have on previous occasions added a small premium that faded when no kinetic follow-through materialised. What distinguishes noise from signal in these episodes is the follow-on calendar: any scheduled round of indirect talks, movement on the named conditions, sanctions enforcement actions against Iranian barrels, and military deployments in theatre. Absent those, a restatement of existing conditions by a non-executive figure has historically been a low-information event.

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