Iran Speaker Warns of Response if US Breaches Deal
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- Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran's Parliament Speaker, publicly warned of an Iranian response if the U.S. and Israel fail to honor the interim peace deal.
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's former supreme leader, is being laid to rest in Tehran, with Ghalibaf's warning issued against that backdrop.
- Ghalibaf's statement demanded "full implementation of the agreements" and specifically named "the US and the Zionist regime" as the parties who must "fulfill their commitments."
- The warning frames compliance as a joint U.S.-Israel obligation rather than a bilateral U.S.-Iran matter, lumping Israel into the same accountability language as Washington.
- The article (dated July 3, 2026) carries Ghalibaf's quote only in truncated form ("if the US and the Zionist regime fail to fulfill their commitments, Iran…"), leaving the threatened response unspecified in the published text.
Why it matters: By issuing the warning during the burial of former Supreme Leader Khamenei, Ghalibaf is publicly drawing red lines for Washington and Jerusalem at a moment of Iranian leadership transition — meaning any perceived deviation from the interim deal will be treated by Tehran's parliament as a joint U.S.-Israeli breach, not just a Washington failure.
