Iran's top negotiator Ghalibaf calls US 'Satan' after strike kills wedding guests in Kuhestak

Iranian parliament speaker and lead negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf condemned Washington after a US strike hit a house hosting a wedding celebration in Kuhestak, Sirik county, killing at least five people including a child and wounding 63, more than half of them women and children. Ghalibaf said 'If a power acts like Satan, picks targets like Satan, and kills like Satan, it's Satan,' branding Israel the 'junior Satan.' Iran's foreign ministry separately pledged to respond to what it called the attack's 'savage crimes.'

Why this matters. A high civilian death toll from a US strike, denounced publicly by Iran's chief negotiator, further narrows any near-term path back to US-Iran talks and raises the likelihood of a direct Iranian retaliatory strike.