Iran’s chief negotiator in talks with the US said on Monday the Islamic Republic is “ready to deliver a well-deserved response to any aggression,” as US President Donald Trump was reportedly considering restarting the war after negotiations with Tehran reached a dead end.

“Mistaken strategy and mistaken decisions will always lead to mistaken results,” Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrote on X. “The whole world has already figured this out.”

“We are prepared for all options; they will be surprised,” he wrote.

In a later post, Ghalibaf added that, “There is no alternative but to accept the rights of the Iranian people as laid out in the 14-point proposal.”

“Any other approach will be completely inconclusive; nothing but one failure after another. The longer they drag their feet, the more American taxpayers will pay for it,” he stated.

Negotiations with Iran again reached a dead end over the weekend after Tehran refused to make significant concessions on its nuclear program.

There is no alternative but to accept the rights of the Iranian people as laid out in the 14-point proposal.Any other approach will be completely inconclusive; nothing but one failure after another. The longer they drag their feet, the more American taxpayers will pay for it. — محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf) May 11, 2026

There is no alternative but to accept the rights of the Iranian people as laid out in the 14-point proposal.Any other approach will be completely inconclusive; nothing but one failure after another. The longer they drag their feet, the more American taxpayers will pay for it.

— محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf) May 11, 2026

Trump said on Monday Iran’s response was a “piece of garbage” and that the current ceasefire was “unbelievably weak.”

The US president claimed that Iranian negotiators told their American counterparts that they were prepared for the US to retrieve Tehran’s stockpiles of highly-enriched uranium, but then refrained from putting that concession in the response paper submitted over the........

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