Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, said that negotiating with the United States “unreasonable, unintelligent and not honorable,” just days after President Trump said he was willing to revive negotiations with Tehran.
But Mr. Khamenei stopped ordering the Iranian government, who sent signals for months that she was interested in negotiations, not to deal with Washington. And although Mr. Khamenei made an unusual gesture Last year, the openness of the conversation, mostly occupied a public hostile posture towards Washington, even quietly allowing Iranian officials to negotiate.
In the comments on Friday, Mr. Khamenei claimed that the previous experiences of Iran were negotiating with the United States showed that Washington could easily be renewed in agreements. According to the previous administration of Mr. Trump, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the nuclear agreement under which Iran would limit the enrichment and supplies of Uranus in exchange for assistance in sanctions.
“Negotiating with America will not solve the problem. The proof? Experience,” said Mr. Khamenei, according to the Iranian State Novine Agency, Irna, who said his comments arrived during the meeting with the commanders and staff of Iranian armed forces.
“The same person now in power overthrew the agreement,” Mr. Khamenei said. “It won’t negotiate with a government like this. Negotiating is unreasonable, unintelligent, it’s not honorable.”
But Vaez, the director of the Iran project for the international crisis group, said on social media that comments could simply be “okay” with the previous public approach to Mr. Khamenei. In 2011, he publicly opposed the negotiations with Obama’s administration, even when he authorized the negotiators to secretly meet with US officials in Oman.
“If it is a true ban, it is again his stubbornness that makes him an antagonist in his story,” Mr. Vaez said.
Last week, comments from the Iranian Reformist President, Masoud Pezeshkiana, seemed to have said that he was ready to negotiate with the United States, as long as they “respect our honor and wisdom and are carried out in equal basis.”
Tehran is felt with a weakened reduced influence in the Middle East-Impacting the successful decimal of his Lebanese partner, Hezbollah, and the rebels of Israel, and the rebels of his longtime ally in Syria, President Bashar Al-Assad-What has caused concern that it could be more prone to turn to nuclear enrichment in weapons.
American officers warned Earlier this week, they believe that Iran worked on the development of a faster, rough approach to the development of atomic bombs.
In his comments on Friday, Mr. Khamenei pushed the concern to further harm the Iranian economy, claiming that Iran must find domestic answers to the crisis.
“What solves these problems is a domestic element,” he said.
Earlier this week, it seems that Mr. Trump himself indicates that he wants to revive the negotiations, even while signing an executive order that will restore the “maximum pressure” policy that would seek to block Iranian exports of oil, a critical source of revenue for the country.
“This one torn me off,” he told reporters as he signed the command. “Everyone wants me to sign it. I’ll do that, “he said, but he added that” he was unhappy to do so. “
On his website of social media, the president of this week trapped negotiating a “proven nuclear rest agreement”, similar to the one who scored in his previous administration in his previous administration. He said he wanted to start working on the “Immediate” agreement.
“I want Iran to be a big and successful country, but one that can’t have a nuclear weapon,” he wrote.
But Mr. Trump also threatened this week that Iran would “delete” if he was murdered.
Mr. Khamenei’s remarks on Friday included an obvious answer to that threat. “If you threaten us, we will threaten them,” he said. “If they activate this threat, we will activate our. If they violate the safety of our nation, we will break their safety.”
