Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Tehran's delegation walked out of 80-minute negotiations with the US after President Trump made threats during the talks. According to Ghalibaf, the Iranian team refused to resume direct talks and only communicated through Qatari and Pakistani mediators, who subsequently issued a joint statement.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who also heads Tehran's negotiation team, confirmed in a new account that the Iranian delegation walked out of 80-minute talks with the United States after President Donald Trump made threats against Iran's leadership and negotiators during the session. Ghalibaf said that upon hearing the threats, he told Vice President Vance the first article of the signed understandings prohibits threats or coercion. The team exited and refused to return, then communicated only through Qatari and Pakistani mediators, who later issued a joint statement. The account was published by an Iranian state-linked source on Tuesday, hours after the incident first emerged.
Our thread on this incident opened Sunday Jun 21 at 20:10 Jerusalem, when semi-official Tasnim News Agency first reported the walkout citing an anonymous source. Within the same hour, a clarification established the delegation walked out of the negotiating room but did not leave Switzerland, while the IRGC Navy confirmed the Strait of Hormuz remained closed. By 20:10 also, Pakistan's Prime Minister was filmed appearing shocked as the Iranian delegation exited. The reports moved from a single source to multiple Iranian state-linked outlets corroborating the walkout and the prime minister's visible reaction. Ghalibaf's statement Tuesday is the first on-record confirmation by a named Iranian official of the walkout, the 80-minute duration, and the mediation structure that followed.
As The Zioneer has reported in recent days, Ghalibaf has repeatedly dismissed U.S. threats as ineffective and argued that diplomacy backed by deterrence achieved more than military action. He warned Sunday that Iran's armed forces are ready to respond differently, and previously called U.S. threats a 'show.' Other Iranian officials, including security chief Ebrahim Azizi, have characterized Trump's leverage as an illusion. The wider background includes weeks of escalating rhetoric between Washington and Tehran, with Ghalibaf also threatening to end dialogue after an Israeli strike in Lebanon on Jun 14.
The U.S. side has not yet commented publicly on the incident. The claim of a walkout, now attributed to a named official, still awaits independent corroboration or on-record confirmation from Washington or the mediating parties.
5 developments
- DevelopingIranian parliament speaker Qalibaf dismisses Trump threats as unserious, says US 'desperate'
- DevelopingIranian parliament speaker says US threats are a 'show', claims US must accept all Iran's demands
- StrongIranian parliament speaker threatens to end dialogue after Lebanon strike
- StrongAnalysis: Iran left talks not over Trump's threats but because it disbelieves them, channel argues
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