Iranian supreme leader rejects nuclear conversations with the US after Trump’s overture

Iran supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that he would not negotiate a nuclear agreement with the United States, citing the requirements of a rocket range and influence in the country.

In a series of posts on x, khamenei called USA Government of “coercion”, claiming that negotiations are just a means of imposing new demands.

“Such negotiations are not aimed at solving the problem,” Khamenei wrote. “Their goal is to perform their dominance and impose what they want.”

He added that “requests” relate to the defense and international abilities of the country.

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“By telling us that we do not, that we do not meet that person, that we do not go there, not to produce it and to limit the range of our missiles to a certain extension,” Khamenei wrote. “How could anyone accept such things?”

Khamenei announced the day after the president Donald Trump He said he sent a letter to Khamenei, who advocated a nuclear agreement with Tehran, suggesting that they could be military consequences if the agreement was not reached.

Trump told reporters on Friday that now they are “down to the final moments” Negotiating with IranAnd he hoped that military intervention would not be needed.

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In a statement on Saturday, National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said the administration hoped that Iran was “putting on his people and the best interests ahead of terror”.

“President Trump clearly said that there are two ways Iran can be resolved: military or assembly,” Hughes wrote.

Behnam Ben Taleblu, director of the Iranian Democracy Defense Foundation, wrote in a statement that Trump should “be careful” in conversations with Tehran.

“Tehran set him a trap, hoping he would lure him in an endless diplomacy used to decline maximum pressure and muffling of the authenticity of the American or Israeli military option as he bought the time to crawl toward nuclear weapons,” Ben Talebla wrote in a statement.

While Trump said in February that he believed that Iran was “close” to the development of nuclear weapons, he noted that he would now prevent the lawsuit.

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He also signed an executive action that ordered the Ministry of Finance to perform “maximum economic pressure” on Iran through a series of sanctions that would devastate oil exports in the country.

The “maximum pressure” initiative against Tehran, which was adopted during the first Trump administration, issues greater sanctions and sharper violation.

The president’s comments and Khamenei’s next posts followed several days before Sunday 18th anniversary of the retired special agent of FBI, Robert “Bob” from Levinson from the island of Kish, Iran.

FBI Washington announced on Facebook on Friday, saying that “he remembers Bob and his family every day” on the eve of the anniversary and National Day of Square and the wrong detainee.

The FBI still offers a reward up to $ 5 million for information that leads to Levinson’s location, recovery and return, according to The Post.

State Department The justice prize program offers a prize up to $ 20 million for information leading to its location, recovery and refund and information that leads to the arrest or belief of anyone responsible for his alleged abduction.

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“As part of our constant efforts to deal with the Bob case and keep the Iranian regime responsible for his role in Bob’s disappearance, we recently published the search for information posters with Mohammad Baseri and Ahmad Khazai, two high Iranian intelligence officers who worked for the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Safety at the time of Bobov.

Diana Stancy Fox News Digital contributed to this report.