The US President said the US will attack Iran ‘militarily’ if the country does not negotiate its nuclear program and said it had sent a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, denounced on Saturday (8) a “intimidation” policy of the United States, after the US President, It threatened to attack Iran “militarily” if the country does not negotiate its nuclear program.
“I wrote a letter to them saying that I hope they negotiate, because if we have to attack militarily, it will be something terrible for them,” said the president of In an interview section on the Fox Business channel broadcast on Friday.
But the head of Iran’s diplomacy, ABBAS ARAGHCHI, said on Saturday that I hadn’t received anything yet. “We heard about it, but we haven’t received anything yet,” he answered a question from a state television journalist. “Some governments insist on intimidation to get negotiations,” Khamenei said in a speech, not to mention Trump directly.
“For them, negotiations are not a way of solving problems, but of dominating them, and they want to impose their will to the other side through negotiations,” added the maximum state authority during a speech to the authorities at Ramadan.
President Massud Pezeshkian, who is in favor of negotiations with Western countries to obtain the survey of sanctions and revive the Iranian economy, was present. Khamenei, in power since 1989, did not mention the letter allegedly sent by Trump.
In 2018, the US president was unilaterally withdrawn from an international nuclear agreement that his country had signed with Iran three years earlier. The text provided for the survey of some sanctions against Tehran in exchange for control over Iran’s nuclear activities.
France, Germany, the United Kingdom, China and Russia are all linked to this agreement, which is now dying. In retaliation for US withdrawal, Iran gradually distanced itself from its commitments and accelerated its nuclear activities. Tehran defends the right to use nuclear energy for civil purposes, especially for energy, but says he does not want to acquire nuclear weapons.
*With information from AFP
Posted by Carolina Ferreira
