Ayatollah Khamenei rejects talks with US under pressure
IRAN : The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali
Khamenei has rejected any talks with the United States under pressure
and threats.
“I am not a diplomat. I am a revolutionary and speak frankly,
honestly, and firmly. An offer of talks makes sense only when the side
[that makes the offer] shows its goodwill,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a
meeting with the officials and commanders of Iran Navy on Thursday.
“Negotiation is meaningful when the two sides talk with goodwill,
under equal conditions and without seeking to deceive each other.
Therefore, ‘negotiation for the sake of negotiation’, ‘tactical
negotiation’ and negotiation offer in order to sell a superpower's
gesture to the world is a deceptive move,” the Leader stated. Ayatollah
Khamenei also noted that during the past four years, nothing has been
seen from the United States but continuation of conspiracies, abetting
seditionists and supporting the terrorists which assassinated Iranian
nation’s scientists.
“You (the Americans) point the gun at Iran and say either
negotiations or we pull the trigger! You should know that pressure and
negotiations do not go together, and the [Iranian] nation will not be
intimidated by such things.”
Ayatollah Khamenei pointed to the remarks by American officials that
‘the ball is now in Iran's court,’ and noted, “The ball is in your
court, because you should answer the question of whether speaking of
negotiations at the same time as continuing pressure and threats makes
any sense at all.”
The Leader pointed out, however, that, “We, of course, understand
their (the Americans’) need for negotiations, because the Middle East
policy of the Americans has failed, and in order to compensate for this
failure, they need to play a trump card.” Taking Iran to the negotiating
table is the trump card that the US needs, Ayatollah Khamenei noted,
adding that the US seeks to tell the world it has good will. “However,
no one sees any goodwill.”
“Negotiation with the United States does not solve any problem
because they have not fulfilled any of their promises in the past 60
years.”
Referring to the conspiracies by the enemies of the Iran including
coups, military provocation, all-out support for the aggressor enemies,
hard war, soft war, intensive pressure by the West’s evil media empire
as well as harsh and increasing sanctions, Ayatollah Khamenei pointed
out that for the past 30 years the enemies have tried to make Iranian
nation disappointed at the Islamic Republic, but they have failed.
- PRESS TV
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