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Khamenei immediately rejected the overture. "When we know they won't honor it, what's the point of negotiating?" he said during a meeting with university students on Wednesday. He also reiterated the country's official position that it does not seek to build a nuclear weapon.
"If we wanted to build nuclear weapons, the U.S. would not be able to stop it.
We ourselves do not want it," Khamenei said. As concerns rise over Iran's nuclear program , U.S.
President Donald Trump is lobbying to get Tehran back to the negotiating table. He said as much in a letter sent to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week via diplomats from the United Arab Emirates. As concerns rise over Iran's nuclear program, U.
S. President Donald Trump is lobbying to get Tehran back to the negotiating table. He said as much in a letter sent to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week via diplomats from the United Arab Emirates.
Khamenei immediately rejected the overture. "When we know they won't honor it, what's the point of negotiating?" he said during a meeting with university students on Wednesday. He also reiterated the country's official position that it does not seek to build a nuclear weapon.
"If we wanted to build nuclear weapons, the U.S. would not be able to stop it.
We ourselves do not want it," Khamenei said. Tehran did say yes, though, to a trilateral meeting with Russia and China held in Beijing on Friday to discuss the issue. At the meeting, the three countries' deputy foreign ministers showed a united front.
In a joint statement issued Friday, they called for "abandoning sanction, pressure, or threat of force" and reiterated their commitment to nonproliferation. Separately, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with the Iranian and Russian officials and proposed a five-point plan, which largely echoed the joint statement but also called for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), to be the basis for..
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