Ghalibaf, in a post on X, criticised recent US strikes and said Washington had failed to learn from past confrontations. “America still hasn’t learned that bullying and breaking promises are no longer cost-free. Let me put it plainly: if you strike, you’ll get hit,” he said.
آمریکا هنوز یاد نگرفته است که زورگویی و بدعهدی دیگر بیهزینه نیست. شفاف بگویم: بزنید، میخورید.
دست و پای بیهوده نزنید که بیشتر فرو خواهید رفت: تنگه هرمز، فقط با «ترتیبات ایرانی» باز میشود نه با تهدیدات آمریکایی.
— محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf) July 9, 2026
Ghalibaf also said the Strait of Hormuz would reopen only on Iran’s terms. “Don’t flail around pointlessly, or you’ll sink even deeper. The Strait of Hormuz will only open with ‘Iranian arrangements,’ not American threats,” he said.
His remarks came after US President Donald Trump said the United States would respond with greater force if Iran launched further attacks.
Asked whether the two countries were heading towards another full-scale conflict, Trump replied, “I don’t know.” He added, “We just hit them very hard. We hit them 20 to 1. Every time they hit us, we are going to hit them 20.”
Senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaee also criticised the United States, saying Washington turned to negotiations when military pressure failed but later abandoned its commitments.
He warned that “the response to every new adventure will be unprecedented strikes from Iran.”
هرگاه از مسیر زور راه به جایی نمیبرند، شتابان به مذاکره و توافق روی میآورند و به محض رسیدن به آن، در پی نابودیاش برمیآیند. در منطق سیاسی آمریکا، مذاکره تنها پلی برای عبور است، نه تعهدی پایدار!
پاسخ هر ماجراجویی تازه، ضرباتی بیسابقه از سوی ایران خواهد بود.— محسن رضایی (@ir_rezaee) July 8, 2026
The exchange came after a 60-day ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran, agreed last month, collapsed this week.
The ceasefire had reopened the Strait of Hormuz, but fighting resumed after Iran was accused of attacking commercial vessels near the waterway, prompting fresh US strikes and retaliatory Iranian attacks on US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait.