Reuters – June 4, 2019
A Qadr H ballistic surface-to-surface missile is fired by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, during a maneuver, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. Click to enlarge
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that Tehran would not be “deceived” by U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer of negotiations and would not give up its missile programme.
Iran and the United States have been drawn into starker confrontation in the past month, a year after Washington pulled out of a deal between Iran and global powers to curb Tehran’s nuclear programme in return for lifting international sanctions.
Trump has condemned the nuclear deal, signed by his predecessor Barack Obama, as flawed for not being permanent and for not covering Iran’s ballistic missile programme and its role in conflicts around the Middle East. He has called on Iran to come to negotiating table to reach a new deal.
Trump said last week that Iran “has a chance to be a great country, with the same leadership. We’re not looking for regime change. I just want to make that clear. We’re looking for no nuclear weapons.”
Reacting to those comments, Khamenei said in a speech broadcast on state television: “The U.S. president recently said Iran can achieve development with its current leaders. That means they do not seek regime change … But this political trick will not deceive Iranian officials and the Iranian nation.”
“In the missile programme, they know we have reached a point of deterrence and stability. They want to deprive us from it, but they will never succeed,” Khamenei said, speaking at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Khamenei said U.S. sanctions have created hardship for Iranians and called on the government to make improving economic conditions its top priority.
President Hassan Rouhani, who has taken a softer stance, suggested last week that Iran might be willing to hold talks if the United States showed it respect and lifted sanctions.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday the United States was prepared to engage with Iran without pre-conditions about its nuclear programme. Iran dismissed the offer as “word-play”.
Reporting by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin; Editing by Gareth Jones and Frances Kerry
not many people realise but all the so called ” rogue” states the USA wants war with
are all countries which refuse a rothschild bank.
So the jews send in stupid americans to bust up the country, then the country has to borrow money to rebuild from the IMF the world banks or the bank of international settlements which are all rothchild.
Those leaders who refuse are either assassinated or there is regime change,
Hugo Chavez like Gadaffhi Saddham Husein and Assad were promised a palace rolls royces unlimited wealth beautiful prostitues etc, both refused so were murdered, in return for the loans rothschild wanted control of all drinking water oil deposits mineral wealth etc then comes the interest upon interest upon interest for the loans, then rothschild talkes over
First the country takes the loan
then rothschild takes the country
then rothschild takes the people
then slavery takes them all
Had we listened to Germany we would not be in this situation now, germ anies fight with the jewish banks should also have been our fight.