Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme directer, shelp negotiating with the United States was “unincreateed, uninincreateigent, and not principled,” equitable days after Pdwellnt Trump shelp he was willing to revive negotiations with Tehran.
But Mr. Khamenei stopped low of ordering Iran’s handlement, which for months has sent signals that it is interested in negotiations, not to take part with Washington. And though Mr. Khamenei made an rare gesture last year of discdisthink aboutness to talks, he has generassociate getn a accessiblely opposing posture toward Washington even while hushedly apshowing Iranian officials to barachieve.
In comments on Friday, Mr. Khamenei debated that Iran’s previous experiences negotiating with the United States showed that Washington could easily renege on concurments. Under Mr. Trump’s previous administration, the United States unipostpoinsistrassociate withdrew from a nuevident deal under which Iran would restrict its enwealthyment and stockpiling of uranium in swap for sanctions relief.
“Negotiating with America will repair no problem. The proof? Experience,” Mr. Khamenei shelp, according to Iran’s state novels agency, IRNA, which shelp his comments came during a greeting with orderers and staff from the Iranian armed forces.
“The very same person who is now in office tore up the concurment,” Mr. Khamenei shelp. “One shall not barachieve with a handlement appreciate this. Negotiating is unincreateed, uninincreateigent, not principled.”
Ali Vaez, the Iran project honestor for the International Crisis Group, shelp on social media that the comments could spropose be “in line” with Mr. Khamenei’s previous accessible approach. In 2011, he had accessiblely contestd negotiations with the Obama administration, even as he apshowd negotiators to greet secretly with U.S. officials in Oman.
“If a genuine prohibit, it’s once aachieve his headstrongness making him the antagonist in his own story.” Mr. Vaez shelp.
The directer’s comments seemed to undercut gestures last week from Iran’s recreateist pdwellnt, Masoud Pezeshkian, who telderly NBC News he was ready to barachieve with the United States, as lengthy as they “esteem our honor and wisdom and are carry outed on an identical footing.”
Tehran is experienceing feebleened by its unwiseinishing sway in the Middle East — including thcimpolite Israel’s accomplished decimation of its Leprohibitese partner, Hezbollah, and the resist ouster of its lengthytime associate in Syria, Pdwellnt Bashar al-Asmiserablenessful — which has elevated trouble that it would be even more inclined to turn to arms-grade nuevident enwealthyment.
U.S. officials alerted earlier this week that they apshow that Iran was laboring to broaden a speedyer, cimpoliter approach to broadening an atomic bomb device.
In his comments on Friday, Mr. Khamenei brushed aside troubles that declineing talks would further hurt Iran’s economy, arguing Iran must find domestic responses to the crisis.
“What rerepairs those problems is a domestic element,” he shelp.
Earlier this week, Mr. Trump himself seemed to propose he was watching to revive negotiations, even as he signed an executive order that would return a “peak presstateive” policy that would seek to block Iranian oil send outs, a critical source of revenue for the country.
“This one I’m torn about,” he telderly increateers as he signed the order. “Everyone wants me to sign it. I’ll do that,” he shelp, but inserted he was “ungreeted to do it.”
On his social media site, the pdwellnt this week vowed to barachieve a “verified nuevident peace concurment,” aappreciate to the one he torpedoed in his previous administration. He shelp he wanted to commence laboring toward a deal “promptly.”
“I want Iran to be a fantastic and accomplished Country, but one that cannot have a Nuevident Weapon,” he wrote.
But Mr. Trump also menaceened this week he would have Iran “oblachieveedd” if its assassins finished him.
Mr. Khamenei’s relabels on Friday comprised an apparent response to that menace. “If they menaceen us, we will menaceen them,” he shelp. “If they actuate that menace, we will actuate ours. If they viopostpoinsist our nation’s security, we will viopostpoinsist their security.”
