MOSCOW, July 8 (HS/RIA Novosti) - Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Wednesday, following US strikes on Iran, that intimidation and blackmail lead to a dead end and stressed that Iran will not give in.

On Wednesday night, US forces launched a series of powerful strikes on Iran. US Central Command claimed the strikes were in response to Iranian actions against commercial vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz.

The era of bullying and extortion is over. It leads nowhere. We don’t fold, Ghalibaf wrote on X.

The politician also accused the US of committing several gross violations of the memorandum of understanding, which the parties remotely signed on June 18. These included violations of Iran's established regime for vessel passage through the Strait of Hormuz, continuing threats of new strikes, the resumption of oil sanctions, strikes on southern Iran and Israel's continued aggression against Lebanon.

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