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Interesting. The only crop we&#8217;re harvesting is what you planted: decades of mistrust.&#8221;<br \/>Ghalibaf&#8217;s post echoed previous remarks by other Iranian officials. On Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Iran would use the unfrozen assets entirely according to its national interests and without restrictions, adding that purchasing decisions would be based on price and quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Thursday rejected U.S. claims that Iran&#8217;s unfrozen assets would be spent on U.S. agricultural products, the latest sign of discord between the two sides over how the released funds should be spent.In a post on social media platform X, Ghalibaf, also a top Iranian negotiator, wrote that &#8220;America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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