Iran Accuses US of Violating Ceasefire Clauses

Iran's parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, accused the United States on Wednesday of violating three key clauses in a 10-point proposal that serves as the framework for a newly announced two-week ceasefire between Washington and Tehran. The allegations, posted on social media, come just one day after President Donald Trump described the proposal as a workable basis for negotiations to end the ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict, raising immediate doubts about the truce's viability.

Ghalibaf cited three specific breaches: Israel's continued military operations in Lebanon, which he said contravene a clause calling for an immediate ceasefire there; the incursion of a U.S. drone into Iranian airspace, which Iranian forces shot down in the city of Lar in Fars Province; and the U.S. denial of Iran's right to enrich uranium, outlined in the proposal's sixth clause. "The very workable basis on which to negotiate has been openly and clearly violated, even before the negotiations began," Ghalibaf wrote. "In such a situation, a bilateral ceasefire or negotiations is unreasonable." Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi echoed the sentiment, stating on social media that the U.S. must...