US put allies at risk ‘for the sake of Israel’: Ghalibaf

TEHRAN, Aug 22: Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliament speaker and top negotiator, says Tehran has received “numerous messages” from neighbouring countries about shaping new security arrangements and expanding economic cooperation in the region.

“The United States put the security of every single one of its allies at such risk through bullying and pure disregard for their interests for the sake of Israel that they briefly saw their entire existence on the line,” Ghalibaf said in a post on X.

“A homegrown, independent order is what will actually deliver peace and security,” he added.

"No matter how much military power we have, we won't survive if people are hungry and we don't have financial turnover, economic growth and national production," Qalibaf said, according to official news agency IRNA.

IRNA said obtaining special permission for Iraqi tankers was one of Baghdad’s main requests during Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf’s visit to Iraq.

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the US military helped move a seven-day average of 8 million barrels a day of oil through the strait. That's down from more than 20 million per day before the war or about one of every five barrels consumed worldwide.�"AGENCIES