Iran says peace cannot be built through threats, outlines minimum demands for lasting settlement

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, said Tehran remains committed to several core principles, including a permanent end to the war, preventing its recurrence, lifting sanctions and blockades, compensation for damages, and respect for Iran’s rights. In a post on X on Tuesday, Gharibabadi said that “True peace cannot be built with a literature of humiliation, threats, and coercive score-settling.” “When the party that has directly played a role in the war, siege, sanctions, and threats through brute force rejects Iran’s response solely because it is not a letter of surrender, it becomes clear that the main issue is not peace, but the imposition of political will through the path of threats and pressure,” he […]