“As we have already announced, any attacks on infrastructure will be responded to, and the criminal Zionist regime responsible for these atrocities will not escape the response of our warriors,” Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said on state TV.
Iran's chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, says the conflict with the US will never end with Iran giving up.
Every time the Americans violate the agreement, we are fully prepared to defend ourselves, he says.
US President Donald Trump, in turn, says on his Truth Social platform that “the ceasefire is over.” But he also says that Iran has asked to continue the talks and “we have agreed to do so.”
The foreign ministers of Egypt and Qatar on Friday called on the United States and Iran to resume negotiations. They also urged the countries to return to the letter of intent they had agreed to. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif urged Iran to safeguard the “hard-won peace” they had achieved.
The war in the Persian Gulf has escalated again since the United States carried out several attacks on Iran at the beginning of the week, in response to Iran attacking three merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The US says the attacks were aimed at military targets - boats and air defences - belonging to Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard. Iran, in turn, has responded with drone attacks on US targets in Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain.
