Iran’s Parliament Speaker Bagher Ghalibaf has the goal of the negotiations with the US is to end the war and establish lasting security, not normalisation with America.
Both sides accuse the other of violating the truce that was supposed to halt the conflict in April, yet neither appears willing to abandon negotiations altogether.
Though the JAAC’s demands are open to scrutiny, banning any political organisation — as long as it remains committed to peaceful activism — is undemocratic.