Iran has been “victorious in the field” during weeks of war and only agreed to a temporary truce with the United States because its demands had been met, the Iranian parliamentary speaker says, AFP reports.

“We were victorious in the field,” Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a national televised address, adding the US had not achieved its goals and Iran controlled the strategic Strait of Hormuz maritime transit route.

“If we accepted the ceasefire, it was because they accepted our demands,” he said, referring to the US.

“The enemy’s every effort was to impose its demands on us and it is important that we register our rights, so this is where negotiation is a method of struggle.”