Tehran, Iran – – Iran Supreme Leader Ayatolá Ali Khamenei He said he rejects an American impulse for conversations between the two countries because they would be aimed at imposing restrictions on the range of Iranian missiles and their influence in the region.
Speaking to a group of officials on Saturday, Khamenei did not identify the United States by name, but said that a “intimidation government” was being persistent in its impulse for conversations.
“Your conversations are not intended to solve problems, it is for … Let’s talk to impose what we want in the other party that is sitting on the opposite side of the table.”
Khamenei’s comments arrived a day after the president Donald Trump He acknowledged sending a letter to Khamenei looking for a new agreement with Tehran to contain his nuclear program that advances rapidly and replacing the nuclear agreement that he withdrew to the United States during his first term in office.
Khamenei said that US demands would be military and related to Iran’s regional influence.
“These are defense capabilities, about the country’s international capabilities. (They will urge Iran) not to do (certain) things, not to know some people, not to go to a certain place, not to produce some articles, their missile range should not be more than a certain distance. Is it possible for someone to accept these?
Khamenei, who has the last word on all state affairs, said such conversations would not address resolution problems between Iran and the West. Although Khamenei did not appoint any person or country, he said that the impulse of conversations creates pressure on Iran in public opinion. “It is not negotiation. It is dominant and imposition, ”he said.
Trump in comments to journalists at the Oval office on Friday did not mention the letter directly. But he made a veiled reference to a possible military action, saying: “We have a situation with Iran that will happen very soon. Very, very soon. “
Its overture occurs when Israel and the United States have warned that they will never let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon, which leads to fears of a military confrontation when Tehran enriches Uranium at close levels of degree of weapons, something just made by atomic armed nations.
Tehran has long maintained its program for peaceful purposes, even when its officials increasingly threaten to pursue the bomb, since tensions are high with the United States on their sanctions and with Israel as a high trembling fire remains in the fire. His war against Hamas in Gaza’s strip.
Iranian Iranian production close to weapons exerts more pressure on Trump. He repeatedly said that he is open to negotiations with the Islamic Republic, while moving more and more to Iran’s oil sales with sanctions as part of his “Maximum pressure” policy replaced.
At the end of August, Khamenei in a speech He opened the door to possible conversations with the United Statessaying that “there is no damage” when committing to the “enemy.” However, more recently The supreme leader attenuated thatSaying that negotiations with the United States “are not intelligent, wise or honorable”, after Trump floated nuclear conversations with Tehran.
