DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that negotiations with America “are not intelligent, wise or honorable” after President Donald Trump floated nuclear talks with Tehran.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also suggested that “there should be no negotiations with such a government,” 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.
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.
“The Americans did not uphold their end of the deal,” Khamenei said. “The very person who is in office today tore up the agreement. He said he would, and he did.”
I’m Iranian. Yes, the president promised that, just like he promised to end Internet censorship yet I still need a VPN to do ANYTHING online. Let me cut the long story short:
On a side note I hate it when foreigners treat the problems of the people of the middle east like it’s a sports match or something. Leftist people on the internet seem to have a soft spot for the regime because it opposes western imperialism I guess. What they don’t realize is that the regime is trying to build its own empire but it can’t. Imperialism is imperialism. People of the middle east are people, not horses in a race to bet on. But I understand that our misery is just entertainment to people in the west, all they want to do is to pick a side like betting on a horse and the fighting on twitter to show how morally good they are for “caring” about people somewhere else on the globe. We are not horses, we are people.