Foreign Ministry Spoeksan Esmaeil Baghaei made the remarks talking to journalists when he was accompanying the negotating team before they departed for Switzerland on Saturday afternoon at the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran. 

About the objectives of the visit, Baghaei explained that the trip had originally been scheduled for Friday to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU). However, because the MoU was signed digitally, the urgency for that specific meeting had subsided.

He noted that the current trip is focused on ensuring the other side adheres to its obligations, stating that the true test of any agreement comes during its implementation stage. Given past experiences with the other party’s breaches of faith, he stressed the need to demand compliance firmly and seriously during the execution phase.

The spokesman pointed out that Clause 13 of the memorandum explicitly states that the ceasefire includes all fronts, including Lebanon. He stated that negotiations for a final agreement would only begin once the implementation of commitments under Clauses 1, 4, 5, 10, and 11 had commenced and continued.

It was later reported that the Iranian negtiating team is headed by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. 

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