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Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that he will not negotiate a nuclear agreement with the United States, citing demands on the range and influence of missiles in the country.
In a series of publications about X, Khamenei called USA. The “coercive” government, claiming that negotiations are just a means to impose new demands.
“Such negotiations are not aimed at solving problems,” Khamenei wrote. “Its objective is to exercise their domain and impose what they want.”
He added that “demands” are related to the country’s defense and international capacities.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, speaks during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, on July 7, 2024. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Brochure/Anadolu through Getty Images)
Trump restores the ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Iran
“Tell us that we do not do this, that we do not know that person, not to go there, not to produce this, and limit the range of our missiles to some extension,” Khamenei wrote. “How could anyone accept those things?”
Khamenei posted one day after the president Donald Trump He said he had sent a letter to Khamenei by pressing for a nuclear agreement with Tehran, which suggests that there could be military consequences if an agreement is not reached.
Trump told reporters on Friday that the United States is “at the final moments” Negotiating with IranAnd I expected a military intervention not necessary.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, pronounces a speech during a program held after the murder of Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah on October 2, 2024. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Brochure/Anadolu through Getty Images)
In a statement on Saturday, the National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said the administration expects to “put their people already the best interests ahead of terror.”
“President Trump clearly said that there are two ways in which Iran can be handled: militarily or making an agreement,” Hughes wrote.
Behnam Ben Taleblu, director of the Foundation for the Defense of the Defense of the Iran program, wrote in a statement that Trump should “be careful” in discussions with Tehran.
“Tehran has established a trap, hoping to attract it to endless diplomacy that is used to rigure maximum pressure and cushion the credibility of an American or Israeli military option while buying time to drag into a nuclear weapon,” Ben Taleblu wrote in a statement.
While Trump said in February that he believed that Iran was “close” to develop a nuclear weapon, he said that the United States would avoid action.
Iranian students attend an annual demonstration against the former United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 3, 2024, marking the 45th anniversary of the acquisition of the embassy by Iranian students. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
He also signed an executive action that ordered the Treasury Department to execute “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 promulgated during the first Trump administration, issues greater sanctions and a tougher application for violations.
The president’s comments and the subsequent positions of Khamenei occurred days before the 18th anniversary of Sunday of the kidnapping of the special agent of the FBI Robert “Bob” Levinson by Kish Island, Iran.
The FBI Washington Field published Friday on Facebook, saying that “he remembers Bob and his family every day” before the anniversary and the National Day of Detainees and unfair hostages.
President Trump in Americafest in Arizona. (Rick Scooters)
The FBI still offers a reward of up to $ 5 million for information that leads to the location, recovery and return of Levinson, according to the post.
The State Department The justice rewards program offers a reward of up to $ 20 million for information that leads to its location, recovery and return and information that leads to the arrest or condemnation of any person responsible for their alleged kidnapping.
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“As part of our continuous efforts to resolve the case of Bob and hold the Iranian regime of his role in the disappearance of Bob, we recently launched information search posters with Mohammad Baseeri and Ahmad Khazai, two Iranian intelligence officers who worked for the Iran Ministry of Intelligence and Security at the time of Bob’s abduction,” the agency wrote in the publication.
Diana Stancy of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
