Iran rejects Trump’s offer to negotiate his nuclear program

Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Jameneí, said Saturday that he will not accept the demands of countries that insist on negotiating, a day after the US president, Donad Trumpannounced that he had sent him a letter in which he urged him to dialogue.

“The insistence of some abusive governments to establish negotiations does not aim to solve the problems, but rather impose their domain and impose their demands,” Jameneí said in an apparent reference to Trump’s calls to negotiate.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran, without a doubt, will not accept its demands,” added the highest political and religious authority of Iran in a meeting in Tehran with high positions of the country’s government.

Jameneí also criticized “the standard doubles” of West and affirmed that western principles are contrary to Islamic.

“We cannot follow the principles of Western civilization in political and economic matters,” he said.

Jameneí’s comments occur a day after Trump announced that he had sent a letter to Iran and negotiate on a nuclear agreement.

“We have a situation with Iran and something will happen very soon, very, very soon,” Trump explained on a appearance before the press in the Oval Office, where he added that they only remain “the last brushstrokes” to achieve an agreement and that “there will be interesting days ahead.”

The Republican insisted that he prefers “a peace agreement than the other (the military option)”, something he had already stated before, and assured that Washington cannot “allow them to have a nuclear weapon,” in reference to Iran.

After his returned to power, Trump has reimputed the so -called “maximum pressure” policy against IR will and approved new sanctions to cut the sale of Iranian oil.

Jameneí, on the other hand, had already rejected the possibility of negotiating when considering that talking with Washington “is not wise, is not intelligent and is not honorable.”

The highest religious authority has recalled that Trump left in 2018 the 2015 nuclear pact, signed between Iran and six powers and that limited the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of the sanctions.

After the US departure from the nuclear agreement, Iran enriches Uranium well above what is allowed and already has 274 kilos enriched at 60 % purity, close to military use of 90 %, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA).