Mohammad Javad Larijani, head of the Basic Knowledge Research Institute, said that "diplomacy and the field are next to each other, it's a joke." He emphasized that diplomacy and the field are not on the same level and diplomacy should be in the path of the resistance policy. On Tuesday, November 3, Mohammad Javad Larijani rejected Masoud al-Mazikian's statements about increasing the government's negotiating powers, saying that these statements were false and that Mujtaba Khamenei opposed the nuclear negotiations. He added that the current issue is "resistance or surrender", not war and peace. Mohammad Javad Larijani said that the approval of the law related to the Strait of Hormuz in the parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran could have increased the bargaining power of diplomats. He considered not approving this law against the opinion of the leader of the Islamic Republic.