Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says the Islamabad memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Iran and the United States was not the result of pressure but the outcome of the Iranian nation's “resistance and strength,” reports Mehr News Agency.

Addressing the 20th Session of the Conference of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (PUIC) Member States, in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, Ghalibaf said the agreement demonstrated that dialogue produces results only when the other side abandons attempts to impose its will on a civilized nation and accepts its rights.

“The Islamabad MoU was not the result of pressure and coercion, but rather the product of the resistance and strength of the brave Iranian nation, an understanding that showed dialogue reaches a result when the other side refrains from imposing its will on a civilized nation and accepts our rights. For this reason, the Islamabad memorandum turned into a declaration of US defeat,” he said.

Ghalibaf said that more than 3,000 Iranians, including women and children, were killed during the conflict, and more than 30,000 were injured.

Nah noted that Iran’s industrial, medical, educational, energy and transportation infrastructure, along with thousands of residential and service units, were targeted during the strikes.

Ghalibaf said the steadfastness of Iran’s Armed Forces and the resistance of the Iranian people had imposed heavy costs on the United States and “the fake Israeli regime.”

Ghalibaf also said that Iran sees the future of the region “not in confrontation, but in interaction; not in elimination, but in coexistence; not in imported security, but in indigenous and shared security.”

He said Iran is ready to expand cooperation with all Islamic countries on the basis of mutual respect, non-interference in internal affairs, good neighborliness and shared interests, and supports initiatives aimed at creating joint economic, trade, financial, scientific and collective security mechanisms.