TEHRAN, Nov 27 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said yesterday that, the country’s problems with the United States will not be solved through negotiation.
Making the remarks, when addressing Iran’s Basij voluntary force, Khamenei explained that, only through “holding Iran to ransom permanently” can the U.S. allow problems to be solved, since Washington can’t be satisfied and demands a new ransom each time.
The United States, under the framework of a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, had agreed to lift the sanctions in return for Iran’s reduction of its nuclear activities. However, America later dropped such commitments, which is another proof that negotiation with Washington is futile, added the Iranian top leader.
The U.S. departure from the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, in 2018, and its reimposition of the sanctions on Iran had prompted the latter to reduce some of its nuclear commitments under the deal. In Apr, 2021, the talks on the deal’s revival began in Vienna. No breakthrough was achieved after the latest round of talks in Aug.
Speaking of a track record of U.S. insatiable demands, Khamenei said, the United States firstly asked Iran to stop 20 percent uranium enrichment, then called for a halt to five-percent enrichment, and after that they wanted Tehran to shut down its entire nuclear industry.
Following all these, he noted, they demanded a change in Iran’s constitution and later sought to restrict the country within its borders and close its defence industries.
Khamenei said, Washington wants the Iranian nation to cross all its red lines, and no devoted Iranian is willing to let the country be held to ransom in such a way.
Calling for awareness in the face of the enemy, he noted that, spreading “fake news and lies” is the “enemy’s most important strategy,” which needs to be confronted through providing accurate and true accounts of the realities on the ground.
Khamenei said, the “enemy” seeks to dominate the people’s minds, so that a nation will hand over its land to the enemy by its own hand.
He urged the country’s people and officials to remain vigilant and prepared from being caught by surprise, when the foe tries to clamour in one place but attack somewhere else.– NNN-IRNA
