Ghalibaf says US deal cannot prevent another attack on Iran
Iran's parliament speaker joins a widening chorus of officials rejecting the idea that any Washington agreement would end the threat of renewed conflict.
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Map: The Gulf and Hormuz, marking Strait of Hormuz
Iran's parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said a deal with the United States cannot prevent another attack on Iran. The remark adds a senior political voice to warnings that have so far come mostly from Iran's security establishment.
Rezaei has already said the US response to Iran's war conditions falls short, and Iran's IRGC navy chief has threatened US vessels near the Strait of Hormuz. Ghalibaf's comment extends that skepticism beyond the military leadership and into Iran's parliament, suggesting resistance to a durable settlement runs across the political establishment rather than one faction of it.
The dispute is playing out against a string of tanker strikes in the strait. Iran's IRGC has said a third supertanker was struck there in two days, and it has said the tanker hit on Monday had switched off its navigation system and ignored warnings as it tried to leave the strait. Iran's state news agency IRNA has said a separate tanker that caught fire in the eastern strait had violated sanctions. Oman, which has tried to mediate, has tied any resolution in the strait directly to a US-Iran track that keeps stalling.
President Trump has said a decision on Iran is coming very soon, a line he has repeated since late September without a signed deal or confirmed concession from either side. With tanker strikes continuing to undercut claims that shipping through Hormuz remains normal, Ghalibaf's statement keeps the standoff, and the geopolitical risk premium built into crude oil, unresolved.