Larry Johnson, the former CIA analyst fromSonar21.com, said Wednesday that he received information last week that Iran's president informed the Pakistani prime minister to inform the U.S. that Tehran was ending negotiations with Washington after recent attacks, and if the gross violations of the ceasefire continue,the country will demonstrate that it has a nuclear weapon.
The Trends Journalreached out to the State Department for comment.
Iran announced Monday that it will end all negotiations with the United States because of repeated ceasefire violations, including Israel’s ongoing offensive in Lebanon, according to Iran’s Tasnim news outlet.
The report, which was cited by CNBC, quoted an Iranian official who said, “No dialogue will take place,” until the IDF retreats from Lebanon and ends attacks in Gaza.
“The ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. is unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts, including in Lebanon,” Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s top diplomat, posted on X. “[A} violation on one front is a violation of the ceasefire on all fronts. The U.S. and Israel are responsible for the consequences of any violation.”
The Tasnim report read: “The immediate cessation of the Zionist regime’s aggressive and brutal army operations in Gaza and Lebanon and the necessity of the regime’s complete withdrawal from the occupied areas in Lebanon have been emphasized by Iranian officials and negotiators, and there will be no talks until Iran and the resistance’s views on this matter are met.”
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian speaker and top negotiator, said the U.S. blockade has been clear evidence of Washington’s “noncompliance with the ceasefire.”
“Every choice has a price and the bill comes due,” he posted.
Israeli troops continue to expand the war inside Lebanon and have taken the Crusades-era Beaufort Castle, which sits north of the Litani River.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the IDF to bomb the southern suburbs of Beirut, in what The Guardian newspaper said was the most “serious escalation” since the ceasefire was announced in April. (The report noted that more than 800 people have been killed inside Lebanon since the 17 April truce.)
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