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Iran says peace cannot be built through threats, outlines minimum demands for lasting settlement

Middle East Monitor 2026/05/13 13:37

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 […]

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