Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has declared that Tehran will not accept negotiations with Washington under the shadow of threats.
In a post on his X handle early Tuesday, Qalibaf denounced US President Donald Trump for acting on a delusion. His remarks came in response to continued US violations of the ceasefire deal reached two weeks ago, including a naval blockade and an attack on an Iranian merchant vessel in the Sea of Oman on Sunday.
ترامپ با اعمال محاصره و نقض آتشبس میخواهد تا به خیال خود این میز مذاکره را به میز تسلیم تبدیل کند یا جنگافروزی مجدد را موجّه سازد.
— محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf) April 20, 2026
مذاکره زیر سایهٔ تهدید را نمیپذیریم و در دو هفتهٔ اخیر برای رو کردن کارتهای جدید در میدان نبرد آماده شدهایم.
“Trump, by imposing a blockade and violating the ceasefire, wants in his own delusion to turn the negotiating table into a table of surrender or to justify renewed warmongering,” said the top lawmaker and lead negotiator.
Qalibaf made it clear that pressure tactics will not yield results at the negotiating table.
“We do not accept negotiations under the shadow of threats,” he said. “Over the past two weeks, we have prepared ourselves to reveal new cards on the battlefield.”
The remarks came as the next round of talks between Tehran and Washington was shrouded in uncertainty following renewed American aggression at sea. The US Navy violated the ceasefire by targeting an Iranian merchant vessel in the Sea of Oman, an act the Iranian military described as a breach of maritime conduct. Tehran reiterated that its response posture remains active, while stressing confidence in national capabilities.
Earlier on Monday, President Masoud Pezeshkian rejected U.S. threats as pressure tactics, saying Iran will not submit to coercion, even as Washington continued to float military and diplomatic ultimatums.
According to reports in US media, the American delegation was scheduled to fly to Islamabad on Tuesday for the next round of talks with the Iranian delegation.
“We’re offering a very fair and reasonable deal, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single power plant and every single bridge in Iran,” Trump wrote on his social media pages.
His war rhetoric coincided with the US military resorting to what Iran called banditry and piracy at sea, targeting Iranian merchant vessels in blatant breach of the ceasefire.
The spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters on Monday condemned the “criminal operation” by the U.S. Navy, saying it violated the ceasefire and committed maritime piracy by firing at an Iranian merchant ship in the waters of the Sea of Oman.
Esmail Baghaei, spokesperson for the Iranian foreign ministry, said at his weekly press conference on Monday that the U.S. was not serious about negotiations with Iran, warning that Washington will face Tehran’s decisive retaliation if it repeats its past mistakes.
According to reports, Pakistani army chief Asim Munir told Trump that the continued U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports was hampering Islamabad’s efforts to mediate a second round of negotiations aimed at permanently ending the US-Israeli aggression against Iran.
The war of aggression was launched on February 28 with the assassination of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei, top military commanders, and ordinary civilians, including nearly 170 schoolchildren in southern Iran’s Minab city.
After 40 days of aggression, the US agreed to Iran’s ten-point proposal, which paved the way for trilateral talks between Iran and the US under Pakistani mediation in Islamabad.
On Friday, after the ceasefire came into effect in Lebanon, Iran agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels while maintaining overall control of the strategic waterway. However, the US maintained its so-called “naval blockade” in breach of the deal, forcing Iran to again close the chokepoint to all traffic on Sunday.
Source: Iranian media (edite dby Al-Manar)