Iran’s Khamenei says nuclear talks with US won’t lift sanctions
Al Jazeera
Supreme leader criticises the US for abandoning the nuclear deal and imposing sanctions, questions the value of talks.
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the United States’ offer to hold talks on its nuclear programme is an attempt to deceive global public opinion, as a letter arrived from US President Donald Trump urging negotiations.
Trump said last week that he had sent a letter to the Iranian leadership seeking negotiations over a new deal with Tehran to restrain its rapidly advancing nuclear programme.
The letter was handed over to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday by Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the president of the United Arab Emirates.
While the two officials were meeting, the supreme leader told a group of university students that Trump’s offer “is a deception aimed at shaping global opinion”.
“We negotiated for years, reached a complete and signed agreement, and then this individual tore it up,” Khamanei said. “How can one negotiate under such circumstances? … When we know they won’t, what is the point of negotiating?”
Comments come after long meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and two senior US officials in Moscow.
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