Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said any negotiations with the
United States would be "futile" as he delivered his first major speech to the conservative-dominated chamber on Sunday.
Ghalibaf, a former commander of the Revolutionary Guards' air force, was elected speaker on Thursday after February
elections that swung the balance in the legislature towards ultra-conservatives.
The newly formed parliament "considers negotiations with and appeasement of America, as the axis of global arrogance, to be futile and harmful," said Ghalibaf.