Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister confirmed Tuesday that Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf will attend the signing ceremony of the agreement with the United States on Friday in Switzerland. The report, carried by Israeli media, follows days of conflicting signals over who would represent Tehran at the ceremony alongside Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Tuesday morning, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister confirmed for the first time on the record that Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf will attend the US-Iran agreement signing ceremony in Switzerland on Friday, according to a report by Asaf Rozentzweig (N12). The confirmation settles days of conflicting signals about the composition of the Iranian delegation: earlier reports — first citing Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's announcement (The Zioneer, Mon 00:23 Jerusalem) and then the New York Times, with Iranian officials telling the Times that both Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi would travel to Geneva (The Zioneer, Mon 00:23 Jerusalem) — had named the two officials but lacked an on-record Tehran acknowledgment. Vice President JD Vance later said he would attend (The Zioneer, Mon 13:45 Jerusalem), with President Trump's possible presence still unconfirmed. A US official then claimed that Trump, Vance, and Ghalibaf had already signed the deal electronically on Monday (The Zioneer, Mon 19:21 Jerusalem) — a claim that remains unverified by independent sources. The Tuesday confirmation from Tehran marks the first official Iranian government acknowledgment of Ghalibaf's participation in the physical ceremony in Switzerland.
The Zioneer has tracked the development of this story since the Pakistan PM's announcement on Friday, June 12 (The Zioneer, Fri 19:19 Jerusalem), which first set the venue and timeline. The thread then moved through a series of reports: the PM's formal statement confirming the 'Islamabad Agreement' (The Zioneer, Mon 00:23 Jerusalem), then the NYT naming Ghalibaf, Araghchi, and Vance as specific signatories, and finally Vance's confirmation of his own attendance. Through these stages, the source channel evolved from a single government announcement to multiple newsroom reports citing Iranian and US officials, and now to an on-record confirmation from a senior Iranian official. The digital-signing claim from a US official (The Zioneer, Mon 19:21 Jerusalem) remains a single-source assertion and has not been corroborated by any other official or independent source.
The signing ceremony, set for Friday, June 19, in Switzerland, would mark the first official high-level meeting between Iranian and American officials in 47 years, as The Zioneer has reported throughout the thread. The venue in Switzerland has not yet been formally announced by either government. What remains open: whether President Trump will travel to the ceremony; whether the claim of an electronic trilateral signing on Monday will be confirmed by additional sources or by the parties; and whether Foreign Minister Araghchi — named alongside Ghalibaf in earlier reports and in the NYT — will also physically attend the ceremony on Friday.
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