Iran has cautiously welcomed the ten-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon stressing that it is an integral part of Tehran’s set of its conditions for an end to the ongoing conflict with Washington.
“The ceasefire was only a result of the unparalleled resistance of Hezbollah's heroes and the unity of the axis of resistance,” Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said in a post on the social platform X.
Iran will approach this ceasefire with caution and stands together until complete victory is achieved, added Ghalibaf who headed Iran’s negotiating team with the U.S. in Islambabad last Saturday.
Also Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei in a statement welcomed the pause between Israel and Lebanon.
“The cessation of the war in Lebanon was part of the ceasefire understanding between Iran and the United States, mediated by Pakistan,” he said.
“From the beginning, the Islamic Republic of Iran, during its talks with various regional and international parties, including the Islamabad talks, emphasised the need for a simultaneous ceasefire in the entire region, including Lebanon, and pursued this issue seriously after the Islamabad talks,” read the statement.
Ghalibaf and Baghaei also expressed Iran’s gratitude over Pakistan’s mediation efforts to establish the ceasefire in Lebanon as part of the Iran-U.S. negotiations framework.
Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir held high-level talks in Tehran on Wednesday and Thursday including with President Masoud Pezeshkian, Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf, and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
He also held a rare meeting with the Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters Major General Ali Abdollahi.
“War is not in the interest of either side. U.S. will not win this conflict, and it is the countries of the region and the world that will suffer serious losses, while only the Zionist regime of Israel is seeking to fulfill its desires,” President Pezeshkian said at the meeting with the visiting Pakistani official.
Also Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf affirmed Tehran's commitment to peace, blaming the U.S. unreliability for the escalation in the conflict and impasse in the talks.
“I hope that those who started the war and are now desperately seeking to stop it will truly end the distrustful behaviour of the past in their actions and deeds,” he told General Munir.
Major General Abdollahi said, “The beginning of the enemy's invasion was due to their miscalculations about the people and especially the defence capabilities of the Armed Forces.”
Expressing the readiness of Iran’s Armed Forces in the event that the ceasefire fails, he added, “All the equipment we used in this war was indigenous equipment made Iran.”
The ceasefire between Iran, the U.S. and Israel expires next Tuesday (21 April) amid prospects of renewed mediated talks between Tehran and Washington in coming days.
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