DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that negotiations with America “are not intelligent, wise or honorable” after President Donald Trump floated nuclear talks with Tehran.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also suggested that “there should be no negotiations with such a government,” but stopped short of issuing a direct order not to engage with Washington.
Khamenei’s remarks upend months of signals from Tehran to the United States that it wanted to negotiate over its rapidly advancing nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of crushing economic sanctions worth billions of dollars.
Khamenei noted that Trump unilaterally withdrew from the earlier nuclear deal under which Iran drastically limited its enrichment of uranium and overall stockpile of the material, in exchange for crushing sanctions being removed.
“The Americans did not uphold their end of the deal,” Khamenei said. “The very person who is in office today tore up the agreement. He said he would, and he did.”
Iran’s “President” is a figurehead with no real power. Having one be more “moderate” would not change the country’s direction, regardless of whether the US bombed it or not.
Their Supreme Leader (chosen by a closed council) is the one who actually sets policy and has effectively full control, then their president follows those policies.
The president did promise to revert many of the more conservative laws and extended an olive branch in exchange for sanction relief. Which was quickly set ablaze.
The Iranian President runs the day to day governance. The Grand Ayatollah focuses on the bigger picture.
Its not chosen by a closed council Lying to simple people is all you do huh ? Go worship trump you fascist idiot
Just elected by a Guardian council that is in turn either appointed by the supreme leader or the Chief justice who is also appointed by the supreme leader. Pretty clearly a circular relationship. Nice name calling, though.
It’s a theocracy. They basically copied the Vatican model. An
assembly of ExpertsConclave of Cardinals, chosen by TheSupreme LeaderPope convenes to elect theSupreme LeaderPope in absolute secrecy. The thing is, looking back at the last 20 years of American politics, the US is not that different, only it’s a Plutocracy. American politicians threw away any pretense of working for, or serving, the people a long time ago.Agreed on all points
Not interested in discussing with a fascist
lol, ok.
Lol you think im joking kid ? How old are you ? Also the text you have shown doesnt have any link to a safe resource And well people can easily know and i will say it People choose certain officers And then those officers will choose the leader Which is indeed this guy Finished i dont have time for a retarded person who copies from capitalism sources and tells me to read it without any safe source or anything
Did the supreme leader steal your punctuation keys? You’re clearly trolling, enjoy your imminent ban.
Oh trolling huh ? A few seconds ago some capitalism guys told me the same Hahaha as i said captalism people have potato brains And yeah just like you potato head im not trolling or anything Im being HONEST
I’m a socialist but go off.
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