Iran's supreme leader says nuclear talks with Trump admin would not be 'wise'

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told aerial unit officers successful Teheran connected Friday that atomic talks with the U.S. "are not intelligent, omniscient oregon honorable."

Khamenei added that "there should beryllium nary negotiations with specified a government," but did not contented an bid to not prosecute with the U.S., according to The Associated Press.

Khamenei’s remarks connected Friday look to contradict his erstwhile indications that helium was unfastened to negotiating with the U.S. implicit Iran’s atomic program. In August, Khamenei seemed to unfastened the doorway to atomic talks with the U.S., telling his country’s civilian authorities that determination was "no harm" successful engaging with its "enemy," the AP reported.

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President Donald Trump floated the thought of a "verified atomic bid agreement" with Teheran successful a station connected his Truth Social platform. In the aforesaid post, helium besides slammed "greatly exaggerated" reports claiming that the U.S. and Israel were going to "blow Iran into smithereens."

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and President Donald Trump. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo)

"I would overmuch similar a Verified Nuclear Peace Agreement, which volition fto Iran peacefully turn and prosper. We should commencement moving connected it immediately, and person a large Middle East Celebration erstwhile it is signed and completed," Trump wrote connected Truth Social.

In 2018, during his archetypal term, Trump exited the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), besides known arsenic the Iran Nuclear Deal, saying that it was not beardown capable to restrain Iran’s atomic development. At the time, President Trump argued that the deal, which was made during erstwhile President Barack Obama’s 2nd term, was "one of the worst and astir one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into."

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei alongside a look wrong a Uranium plant. (Getty Images)

Just days earlier his telephone for a "verified atomic bid agreement" with Iran, Trump signed an enforcement bid urging the authorities to enactment unit connected the Islamic republic. He besides told reporters that if Iran were to assassinate him, they would beryllium "obliterated," arsenic per his alleged instructions.

According to the AP, connected Friday, Khamenei slammed the U.S. because, successful his eyes, "the Americans did not clasp up their extremity of the deal." Furthermore, Iran’s ultimate person referenced Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA, saying that helium "tore up the agreement."

"We negotiated, we gave concessions, we compromised— but we did not execute the results we aimed for."

Iran has insisted for years that its atomic programme was aimed astatine civilian and peaceful purposes, not weapons. However, it has enriched its uranium to up to 60% purity, which is astir 90% the level that would beryllium considered weapons grade.

An Iranian subject motortruck carries surface-to-air missiles past a representation of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a parade connected the juncture of the country's yearly service time connected April 18, 2018, successful Tehran, Iran. (ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

IRAN'S WEAKENED POSITION COULD LEAD IT TO PURSUE NUCLEAR WEAPON, BIDEN NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER WARNS

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi told Reuters successful December 2024 that it was "regrettable" that determination was nary "diplomatic process ongoing which could pb to a de-escalation, oregon a much unchangeable equation."

In summation to his remarks connected Iran, President Trump made planetary headlines with his connection that the US instrumentality implicit Gaza arsenic the Israel-Hamas warfare rages on. Khamenei, according to the AP, besides seemed to notation the president’s remarks connected Gaza without mentioning them outright.

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"The Americans sit, redrawing the representation of the satellite — but lone connected paper, arsenic it has nary ground successful reality," Khamenei told aerial unit officers, according to the AP. "They marque statements astir us, explicit opinions and contented threats. If they endanger us, we volition endanger them successful return. If they enactment connected their threats, we volition enactment connected ours. If they interruption the information of our nation, we will, without a doubt, respond successful kind."