India, Nov. 15 -- Iran's Parliament speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf has asserted that Tehran will not remain in a state of 'neither war nor peace' with the United States amid simmering tensions and continued deadlock over a definitive peace deal, semi-state Mehr News Agency reported.

Ghalibaf, who is also Iran's chief negotiator, warned the US against committing further miscalculations, saying that the Islamic Republic's armed forces would dictate the territorial parameters of any ensuing conflict.

"We do not care whether the US chooses the path of negotiations or war. If it accepts our seven reasonable conditions, the door to an agreement will be open," he was quoted as saying.

He also dismissed US treasury secretary Scott Bessent's ...