Iran’s supreme leader states that negotiating with the US “is not intelligent or wise”

The supreme leader of IranAli Jameneí, said Friday to hold conversations with USA “It is not wise, it is not intelligent and is not honorable,” after the US president, Donald Trump, opened the door to a possible negotiation between the two countries.

“You should not negotiate with such a government (USA), negotiating is not wise, it is not intelligent and is not honorable,” said the highest political and religious authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a meeting with military in Tehranthe Irna state agency reported.

Jameneí recalled that “I was negotiated with the US years, an agreement was reached, but the Americans broke it,” in reference to the 2015 nuclear pact that Trump He left in 2018 to reimpose economic sanctions over the Persian country.

The religious assured that in the 2015 agreement, which limited the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for the removal of sanctions, Tehran “He made concessions, yielded, but did not achieve the expected results.”

“If they attack us, we will attack,” says Jamenei

In addition, Jameneí warned that “if Americans attack the security of the Iranian nation, we will also attack their safety without hesitation” in the meeting with commanders of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Iranian army.

“If they threaten us, we will threaten them. If they carry out this threat, we will also carry it out ”, assured.

The US president, Donald Trump, signed on Tuesday a memorandum in which he ordered the treasure and other government agencies in the country to apply maximum economic pressure on Iran to stop the roads that can lead the country to develop nuclear weapons.

In addition, yesterday he imposed new sanctions on the oil sector by pointing against an international network to facilitate shipment to China of millions of barrels of Iranian oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Despite this, the Republican said Wednesday that he would like Reduce the Persian nation.

The nuclear pact

Iran, meanwhile, said that if the main issue to USA It is that the country does not obtain nuclear weapons, its differences can be solved and that “there is no problem”, in response to the statements of the US president.

The US president already imposed the “maximum pressure policy” against Tehran during his first term (2017-2020) and left the 2015 nuclear pact that limited the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of the sanctions, which sank the Iranian economy .

After the US departure from the nuclear agreement, Iran enriches Uranium well above what is allowed and already has 182.3 kilos enriched at 60 % purity, close to military use of 90 %, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA).