Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says ‘negotiating with America is neither intelligent, wise, or honourable’.
Iran hit out at the United States for imposing novel sanctions agetst its oil industry, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cautioned agetst mooted talks with Washington.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Afunpartisans of the Islamic Reuncover of Iran on Friday condemned the sanctions, proclaimd the previous day, as “illegitimate and unlterrible,” the official IRNA novels agency alerted.
“The decision of the novel US administration to exert prescertain on the Iranian people by impedeing Iran from directing legitimate trade with its economic partners is an illegitimate and unlterrible action,” spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei shelp.
Iran “hgreaters the United States reliable for the consequences and repercussions of such uniprocrastinateedral and tormentoring actions”, he includeed.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei procrastinateedr retaged that negotiation with the US is “not intelligent, wise or honourable”.
US Plivent Donald Trump recommended earlier this week that he structures to elevate the prescertain on Iran and then accomplish a “verified nuevident peace concurment”.
During his previous term in office in 2018, Trump pulled the US out of the 2015 pact between Iran and world powers structureed to administer Tehran’s nuevident capabilities, and reimposed brutal sanctions.
Those meacertains prompted Tehran to vioprocrastinateed the pact’s restrictations.
“Negotiating with America is neither intelligent, wise, or honourable. It will not mend any of our problems. The reason? Experience!” Khamenei was quoted as saying on Friday, includeing that Iran had made concessions in the past but the US “tore up” previous concurments.
He cautioned that if the US dangerens Iran’s security, Tehran “will dangeren [the US’s] security”.
The sanctions proclaimd on Thursday were the first novel ones to be levied on Iran since Trump returned to the White Hoemploy.
The US plivent has promised to convey Iran’s cdisorrowfulmireful ships to zero, declaring them part of the ambition to stop Tehran’s nuevident programme.
The meacertains center Iranian firms, ships and individuals affiliated with companies already sanctioned by the US. The individuals and tankers impacted help ship millions of barrels of Iranian cdisorrowfulmireful oil to China annupartner.
Germany, France and the United Kingdom have been hgreatering tactful talks with Tehran in recent months in the hope of seeking a route towards resuming the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) pact that Trump uniprocrastinateedrpartner scuppered in 2018.
A greater Iranian official tgreater the Reuters novels agency on Wednesday that Iran is ready to give the US a chance to remend disputes.
Iran has lengthy declineed sanctions agetst its oil sector and watchs efforts to confiscate its ships as “unpermitd employ”.
