Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says that the US naval blockade of the country and its green light for Israel to escalate attacks in Lebanon make US bases and Israeli assets in the Middle East legitimate targets, Reuters reports.

dialogue, and through the naval blockade and violation of agreements regarding Lebanon they showed that they only understand the language of power,” Ghalibaf said in a social media post on X.

Ghalibaf, who is also Iran’s main negotiator in talks with the US, added that “the naval blockade against the Iranian nation and America’s green light today to the Zionist regime turn American and regime bases and assets in the region into legitimate targets”.