Despite openly advocating for a negotiated agreement, the speaker of Iran’s parliament has accused the US of planning a ground invasion while the US sends thousands of soldiers to the Middle East.
In a statement released by the official IRNA news agency on Sunday, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stated, “Our men are waiting for the arrival of the American soldiers on the ground to set them on fire and punish their regional allies once and for all,” as Iran battled power outages amid intensifying Israeli attacks on the country’s central and western regions.
Power disruptions were reported by Iran’s Ministry of Energy on Sunday following attacks on electricity industry facilities in Tehran, the country’s capital, the surrounding area, and the neighboring province of Alborz. The problems were being fixed, according to a later report from the news agency Fars.
The strikes’ connection to US President Donald Trump’s threats to target Iranian power plants and other vital infrastructure if Tehran rejected an agreement to end the conflict was unclear. As Washington unveiled a 15-point peace proposal that detractors labeled as “maximalist,” Trump extended his deadline by ten days, till April 6.
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