“Trump said he wanted to use power for peace; he lied,” Khamenei said. Instead, the theocratic leader said Trump and his administration “used power to massacre Gaza, to encourage war wherever they could and support their own mercenaries.”
Khamenei reiterated his threats against Israel, calling him “the Zionist regime” and “a dangerous and malignant cancer tumor in this region (this) must and will be uprooted”.
“The United States owes and will leave this region,” he added.
While Iran’s rhetoric against the United States and its allies persists, Tehran and Washington negotiate a new agreement to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and avoiding large-scale conflicts in the Middle East.
Ali Shamkhani, one of Khamenei’s main advisers, told NBC this week that Iran would never make nuclear weapons, eliminating highly enriched uranium stocks, enriching uranium only at lower levels necessary for civil use and allowing international inspectors to supervise it in exchange for the lifting of all sanctions on Iran.
However, Trump wants to avoid an agreement with Iran which resembles the Complete Complete Action Plan (JCPOA), which was reached during the presidency of Barack Obama and included the European Union and China. Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 and reproduced the sanctions in Tehran. The following year, Iran ceased to comply with the broken agreement.
The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araqchi
