Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday (September 1, 2026) that Tehran would “immediately” reciprocate if the United States returned to a June deal aimed at ending their war.
Pezeshkian in a later speech at the Summit. “Iran has continued to regard diplomacy and negotiations as the primary path to resolving disputes. But diplomacy without good faith, without respect for commitments and without refraining from the use of force cannot create lasting peace,” he added.
“I state explicitly that if the United States returns to its commitments under the aforementioned memorandum of understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately take reciprocal action,” Mr. Pezeshkian said at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Kyrgyzstan, according to the website of the Iranian presidency. “The repeated violation by the United States of its commitments under the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding showed that… the absence of effective enforcement guarantees and a return to a policy of pressure and threats could derail the path of diplomacy,” said Mr. On Monday (August 29, 2026), Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said “the United States must return to its commitments and to what their president signed” under the deal. “In that case, everything can be put back on the right track.”
