Iran's supreme leader rejects negotiations with Trump as 'not rational, intelligent or honorable'
Iran’s Supreme Leader rejected holding talks with Donald Trump, saying that experience shows it is “not rational, intelligent, or honorable” to do so.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday rejected the idea of holding talks with the Trump administration, saying that experience had shown it was “not rational, intelligent, or honorable” to do so.
“Negotiations with America do not solve any of our problems,” Khamenei said in a speech Friday, according to the Iranian news agency Tasnim.
Khamenei’s comments came after Trump on Wednesday indicated a willingness to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran “immediately.” Days earlier, the president renewed his “maximum pressure” campaign on Tehran, signing an executive order aimed at preventing it from obtaining nuclear weapons and eliminating its oil exports.
“We will see whether or not we can arrange or work out a deal with Iran," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
“We don’t want to be tough on Iran. We don’t want to be tough on anybody," he added, expressing a preference for “a Verified Nuclear Peace Agreement, which will let Iran peacefully grow and prosper.”
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