The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bajar Ghalibaf, on the US approach to negotiations and the conflict:
"So when she acts like this, her approach is always the same: first, she threatens, and if she can, she bribes. If that fails, it resorts to threats. If it cannot achieve its goals through war, it turns to negotiations. Unless he is defeated in this negotiation, he withdraws and starts the same vicious cycle all over again.
The Americans did not imagine that Iran would stand up to them. They thought they could come in three or four days, or a week, and confront the Islamic Republic, overthrow it and achieve their goals. But after forty days of war, they ran into serious political, economic and military difficulties. This is American territory, and they have not yet responded officially or explicitly to our letter. ".