Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf said on Wednesday that a ceasefire and the end of the war in Lebanon are as important to Iran as a ceasefire and the end of the war in Iran itself. The statement was reported by Israeli media, continuing a series of recent remarks from the senior Iranian official linking events in the two arenas.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf on Wednesday equated the importance of a ceasefire in Lebanon with ending the war in Iran, according to Israeli media reports. The remark, reported via N12, comes amid a sustained period of Ghalibaf making regular statements linking multiple fronts — from Lebanon to Iran to Jerusalem — as he has done repeatedly over recent weeks.
Ghalibaf, who chairs the Islamic Consultative Assembly, has delivered a series of similarly defiant and interlinked messages since early June, as The Zioneer has reported. On June 18, he argued that diplomacy and military action are complementary, and separately called for the liberation of Jerusalem while tying it to a Lebanon ceasefire. On June 14, he warned that anyone who opens fire will bear the consequences and that 'the distance between diplomatic and military confrontation is not great.' On June 10, he vowed that any aggression against Iran would receive a 'decisive and immediate response.'
Wednesday's statement is the latest in this chain, reinforcing the Iranian leadership's framing of events in Lebanon as inseparable from Iran's own strategic calculus. The source is a single Israeli media report; the full context of Ghalibaf's remarks — including whether they were delivered in a speech, interview, or social-media post — has not been detailed.
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