Parliament speaker says Iran ‘definitely not looking for ceasefire’

Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has rejected the idea that an end to the war could come through negotiations with the US and Israel, reports Al Jazeera.

“We are definitely not looking for a ceasefire,” he wrote in a post on X. “We believe that the aggressor should be punched in the mouth so that it learns a lesson [and] will never think of attacking our beloved Iran again.”

Ghalibaf said Iran wanted to break the cycle of “war-negotiation-ceasefire and then war again”, a strategy it said Israel was using to assert its hegemony.