Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf publicly mocked US President Donald Trump on Thursday, calling the emerging US-Iran memorandum of understanding 'a document of America's defeat' and saying the Iranian people will judge it for themselves. His remarks, reported by Iranian state-linked sources, are the latest in a series of hardline statements from within the regime as diplomatic talks proceed.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf escalated his public criticism of the emerging US-Iran memorandum of understanding on Thursday morning, mocking US President Donald Trump and declaring the document a symbol of American defeat. 'The memorandum of understanding is a document of America's defeat. The people will see it and judge for themselves,' Ghalibaf said, according to Iranian sources. The remark is the latest in a sustained campaign of hardline pushback from within the Iranian political establishment as diplomatic talks between Washington and Tehran advance. As The Zioneer reported earlier this week (Wednesday, June 17, 23:23 Jerusalem), Ghalibaf had already dismissed the emerging agreement as 'unworthy of trust,' stating that 'our guarantee is our strength.' Later that same evening, he warned that if the enemy does not understand the language of reason, Iran will respond with 'the language of force,' and claimed that Article 6 of the MOU allocates $300 billion for Iran's reconstruction — framing the deal as a record of defeat for the United States. The current statement sharpens that rhetoric by directly mocking Trump and suggesting public judgment of the agreement. Ghalibaf's Thursday comments join a chorus of criticism from hardliners inside Iran, including members of parliament and IRGC-aligned figures, and from Israeli commentators who have likened the deal to the 1938 Munich Agreement or called it worse than the 2015 JCPOA. The MOU's exact terms have not been published; the White House and the State Department have not commented on Ghalibaf's latest remarks.
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