Iran’s supreme leader dismissed Donald Trump’s proposal to resume conversations about the nuclear program
Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that Negotiations with the United States “are not intelligent, wise or honorable” After President Donald Trump raised the possibility of resuming nuclear conversations with Tehran.
The ayatollah Ali Khamenei He also suggested that “there should be no negotiations with such a government,” but did not issue a direct order not to interact with Washington.
Khamenei’s statements throw months of Tehran signals to the United States that he wanted to negotiate on his fast progress in exchange for the uprising of crushing economic sanctions worth bills of dollars. After Khamenei’s comments, the Iranian Rial sank to a historical minimum of 872,000 rials per dollar in the operations after the closure of the market.
What will happen next is still clear, in particular because the reformist president Masoud fishshkian He promised as recently as Thursday to establish a dialogue with the West.
Khamenei’s statements to the Air Force officers in Tehran seemed to contradict their own previous statements in August who opened the door to the conversations. However, Khamenei, 85, has always been careful with his comments on the negotiation with the West. That includes balance the demands of the reformists within the country who want the conversations against the hard line elements within the Iran theocracy, including the Revolutionary Guard paramilitary.
Khamenei said that Trump withdrew unilaterally from the previous nuclear agreement under which they would drastically limited its enrichment of uranium and general storage of material, in exchange for the overwhelming sanctions.
“The Americans did not fulfill their part of the agreement,” Khamenei said. “The same person who is in office today broke the agreement. He said he would, and did. ”
He added: “This is an experience that we must learn. We negotiated, we made concessions, we reached agreements, but we did not achieve the results we were looking for. And despite all its defects, the other party finally violated and destroyed the agreement. ”
It is not clear what caused Khamenei’s comments. However, they occur after Trump suggested that he wanted to negotiate with Tehran, even while signing an executive order to impose his “maximum pressure” approach to Iran on Tuesday.
“I’m going to sign it, but I hope we don’t have to use it much”he said from the Oval office. “We will see if we can fix or prepare an agreement with Iran.”
“We don’t want to be hard with Iran. We don’t want to be hard with anyone, ”Trump added. “But they simply can’t have a nuclear bomb.”
Trump continued with another online message on Wednesday, saying: “The reports that the United States, working together with Israel, will fly to Iran in pieces, are very exaggerated.”
“It would prefer much more a verified nuclear peace agreement, which allows Iran to grow and prosper peacefully,” he wrote in Truth Social. “We should start working on it immediately and celebrate it in the Middle East when it is signed and completed.” He did not give more details.
Khamenei, like other Iranian leaders, uses elliptical comments to indirectly govern politics without typecasting in any decision. As a supreme leader, he has also created a vast bureaucracy that competes with herself for influence, even with her civil leadership under fishshkian.
As recently as Thursday, fishshkian suggested that Iran could open to even more inspections of the United Nations Nuclear Control Agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
“They can come and inspect a hundred times more since we are supposed to go after” a nuclear weapon, fishshkian told foreign diplomats.
Iranian diplomats have long pointed out Khamenei’s preaching as a binding Fatwa, or religious edict, that Iran will not build an atomic bomb.
Iran has insisted for a long time that its nuclear program has peaceful ends. However, it now enriches uranium up to 60% purity, a short technical step from 90% arms levels. Iranian officials suggest more and more that Tehran could try to make an atomic bomb. American intelligence agencies evaluate that Iran has not yet begun a weapons program, but He has “undertaken activities that position it better to produce a nuclear device, if he decides to do it.”
Iran describes the US sanctions to petroleum companies as “unjustified”.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized separately the United States Treasury decision to impose sanctions on Thursday against companies that trade with Iranian crude oil sanctioned with China. The treasure described companies as formators of an “international network to facilitate the sending of millions of Iranian crude oil barrels worth hundreds of millions of dollars.”
The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Iran, Esmail Baghaei, described the decision of the “completely unjustified and contrary to international norms and regulations.”
(With AP information)
