Iran says implementation of Islamabad MoU ‘suspended’ after ‘US violations’

WEB DESK: Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said that Iran suspended its commitments to the Islamabad MoU on Saturday as the United States attacks continue, Al Jazeera reports, citing Iran’s Fars news outlet.

According to the deputy foreign minister, the decision to suspend the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding was made after the US continued its strikes that targeted key infrastructure in the country.

“We have also suspended our commitments; we are not implementing them, and we are busy defending the country,” he says.

🎥 غریب‌آبادی: تعهداتمان در تفاهمنامه اسلام‌آباد را متوقف کرده‌ایم

معاون حقوقی وزارت خارجه: آمریکا تمام تعهداتش در چهارچوب یادداشت تفاهم اسلام‌آباد را زیر پا گذاشته و متوقف کرده است.

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— خبرگزاری فارس (@FarsNews_Agency) July 18, 2026

The United States has targeted at least 95 locations in Iran’s Khuzestan province during the past 10 days of the ongoing war, the province’s deputy governor Valiollah Hayati said, according to Al Jazeera.

Hayati told Iran’s Tasnim news agency that US strikes hit 12 counties across Khuzestan, calling the attacks evidence of what he described as the “boundless criminality of the enemy.”

Earlier, Iranian Supreme Leader’s adviser Mohsen Rezaei had warned that Iran would “sound the drums of war” if US attacks continued for another two to three days.

In a statement, Rezaei said the policy of pursuing negotiations and war simultaneously had come to an end, adding that continued US strikes would prompt Iran to respond with a full-scale war posture.

Meanwhile, Brigadier General Majid Mousavi, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force, said Iran’s retaliatory operations would continue until the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is lifted.

Mousavi said the entire Iranian nation was standing united against the enemy, with every part of the country, from Tehran to the south, holding equal importance. He warned that any attacks on civilians or infrastructure would be met with a stronger response.