Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, said Tehran remains committed to several core principles, including a permanent end to the war, preventing its recurrence, lifting sanctions and blockades, compensation for damages, and respect for Iran’s rights.
In a post on X on Tuesday, Gharibabadi said that “True peace cannot be built with a literature of humiliation, threats, and coercive score-settling.”
“When the party that has directly played a role in the war, siege, sanctions, and threats through brute force rejects Iran’s response solely because it is not a letter of surrender, it becomes clear that the main issue is not peace, but the imposition of political will through the path of threats and pressure,” he added.
The Iranian official said Tehran had made clear that its demands include, “the permanent cessation of war and its non-repetition, compensation for damages, lifting of the siege, removal of illegal sanctions, and respect for Iran’s rights.”
He stressed that these “are not maximalist demands”, but rather the minimum requirements for any serious and sustainable arrangement consistent with the UN Charter to end a crisis, which he said, began with the “unlawful resort to force.”
