Iran supreme leader criticizes proposed nuclear talks with US
Iran's supreme leader said Friday that negotiations with America 바카라 게임 웹사이트are not intelligent, wise or honorable바카라 게임 웹사이트 after President Donald Trump floated nuclear talks with Tehran.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also suggested that 바카라 게임 웹사이트there should be no negotiations with such a government,바카라 게임 웹사이트 but stopped short of issuing a direct order not to engage with Washington.
Khamenei's remarks upend months of signals from Tehran to the United States that it wanted to negotiate over its rapidly advancing nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of crushing economic sanctions worth billions of dollars.
What happens next remains unclear, particularly as reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian promised as recently as Thursday to enter into a dialogue with the West.
Khamenei바카라 게임 웹사이트s remarks to air force officers in Tehran appeared to contradict his own earlier remarks in August that opened the door to talks. However, the 85-year-old Khamenei has always been careful with remarks about negotiating with the West. That includes balancing the demands of reformists within the country who want the talks against hard-line elements within Iran바카라 게임 웹사이트s theocracy, including the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Khamenei noted that Trump unilaterally withdrew from the earlier nuclear deal under which Iran drastically limited its enrichment of uranium and overall stockpile of the material, in exchange for crushing sanctions being removed.
바카라 게임 웹사이트The Americans did not uphold their end of the deal,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Khamenei said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트The very person who is in office today tore up the agreement. He said he would, and he did.바카라 게임 웹사이트
He added: "This is an experience we must learn from. We negotiated, we gave concessions, we compromised바카라 게임 웹사이트 but we did not achieve the results we aimed for. And despite all its flaws, the other side ultimately violated and destroyed the agreement.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Mixed messages from Trump
It's not clear what sparked Khamenei's remarks. However, they come after Trump suggested he wanted to deal with Tehran, even while signing an executive order to reimpose his 바카라 게임 웹사이트maximum pressure" approach to Iran on Tuesday.
바카라 게임 웹사이트I바카라 게임 웹사이트m going to sign it, but hopefully we바카라 게임 웹사이트re not going to have to use it very much,바카라 게임 웹사이트 he said from the Oval Office. 바카라 게임 웹사이트We will see whether or not we can arrange or work out a deal with Iran.바카라 게임 웹사이트
바카라 게임 웹사이트We don바카라 게임 웹사이트t want to be tough on Iran. We don바카라 게임 웹사이트t want to be tough on anybody,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Trump added. 바카라 게임 웹사이트But they just can바카라 게임 웹사이트t have a nuclear bomb.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Trump followed with another online message on Wednesday, saying: 바카라 게임 웹사이트Reports that the United States, working in conjunction with Israel, is going to blow Iran into smithereens, ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED.바카라 게임 웹사이트
바카라 게임 웹사이트I would much prefer a Verified Nuclear Peace Agreement, which will let Iran peacefully grow and prosper,바카라 게임 웹사이트 he wrote on Truth Social. 바카라 게임 웹사이트We should start working on it immediately, and have a big Middle East Celebration when it is signed and completed.바카라 게임 웹사이트 He did not elaborate.
Nuclear enrichment
Khamenei, like other Iranian leaders, uses elliptical comments to indirectly govern policy while not boxing himself into any one decision. As supreme leader, he's also created a vast bureaucracy that competes with itself for influence, including with its civilian leadership under Pezeshkian.
As recently as Thursday, Pezeshkian suggested Iran could open itself up to even more inspections from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
바카라 게임 웹사이트They (can) come and inspect one hundred times more since we are not supposed to go after바카라 게임 웹사이트 a nuclear weapon, Pezeshkian told foreign diplomats.
Iranian diplomats have long pointed to Khamenei바카라 게임 웹사이트s preachings as a binding fatwa, or religious edict, that Iran won't build an atomic bomb.
Iran has long insisted its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. However, it now enriches uranium to 60% purity 바카라 게임 웹사이트 a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%. Iranian officials increasingly suggest Tehran could pursue an atomic bomb. U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Iran has yet to begin a weapons program, but has 바카라 게임 웹사이트undertaken activities that better position it to produce a nuclear device, if it chooses to do so.바카라 게임 웹사이트
U.S. sanctions on oil trading firms 바카라 게임 웹사이트unjustified바카라 게임 웹사이트
Earlier in the week, Trump also said that displaced Palestinians in Gaza could be permanently resettled outside the war-torn territory and proposed the U.S. take 바카라 게임 웹사이트ownership바카라 게임 웹사이트 in redeveloping the area into 바카라 게임 웹사이트the Riviera of the Middle East.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Khamenei appeared to reference Trump's Gaza proposal in his remarks.
바카라 게임 웹사이트The Americans sit, redrawing the map of the world 바카라 게임 웹사이트 but only on paper, as it has no basis in reality," Khamenei said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트They make statements about us, express opinions and issue threats. If they threaten us, we will threaten them in return. If they act on their threats, we will act on ours. If they violate the security of our nation, we will, without a doubt, respond in kind.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Meanwhile, Iran's Foreign Ministry separately criticized the U.S. Treasury's move to levy sanctions Thursday against firms trading sanctioned Iranian crude oil to China. The Treasury described the firms as forming an 바카라 게임 웹사이트international network for facilitating the shipment of millions of barrels of Iranian crude oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei called the Treasury's decision 바카라 게임 웹사이트completely unjustified and contrary to international rules and regulations.바카라 게임 웹사이트