Iran threatens response without ‘full implementation’ of US deal

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has warned of an Iranian response if the U.S. and Israel breach the interim peace deal, as Tehran prepares to bury its former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“We strongly demand full implementation of the agreements, and if the US and the Zionist regime fail to fulfill their commitments, Iran will resume proportionate actions,” Ghalibaf said Friday, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency, during a meeting with Belarusian lawmaker Igor Sergeyenko. 

Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi have been the lead Iranian negotiators in high-level talks with the U.S. to finalize an agreement that would permanently end hostilities in the region, fully reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz and resolve outstanding issues on Tehran’s nuclear program, among other objectives.

The renewed tension comes after the U.S. and Iran exchanged fire in the Gulf last week in the first flare-up of fighting since the 60-day memorandum of........

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