{"id":305034,"date":"2025-03-13T07:05:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T07:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=305034"},"modified":"2025-03-15T06:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T06:53:19","slug":"trumps-call-for-talks-with-iran-deception-ayatollah-khamenei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=305034","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s call for talks with Iran \u2018deception\u2019: Ayatollah Khamenei"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 March 12, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says a call by US President Donald Trump for negotiations with Iran is nothing but an attempt to “deceive the world public opinion” and portray the Islamic Republic as the party not willing to give diplomacy another chance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe sat down for years and negotiated. This same person threw off the table and tore apart the concluded, finalized, and signed negotiations,\u201d Ayatollah Khamenei said during an address to a gathering of students in Tehran on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we know he doesn\u2019t honor [agreements], what is the point of negotiating?\u201d the Leader asked. \u201cTherefore, calls for negotiation and talks of negotiation are meant to deceive the global public opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Leader said the Trump administration does not intend to remove the sanctions, and that negotiations will only worsen the pressure campaign as Washington will raise new demands.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the purpose of negotiations is to lift the sanctions, negotiating with this US administration will not remove the sanctions. It will make the sanctions even tighter and increase the pressure,\u201d the Leader said.<\/p>\n

\u2018US to lose more in case of war\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Responding to Western allegations that Tehran seeks nuclear weapons, the Leader reiterated that Iran does not want to build nuclear arms, adding that it could have done so by now if it had so chosen.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is said that \u2018We won\u2019t let Iran obtain nuclear weapons.\u2019 Had we wanted to build nuclear weapons, America could not have stopped us. The fact that we don\u2019t have nuclear weapons and are not pursuing them is because we ourselves don\u2019t want them for specific reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Referring to US threats of military action against Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei warned that Iran is prepared to deliver a decisive response. The United States, he said, would suffer more in such a confrontation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my view, this threat is irrational because war or military aggression is not a one-sided affair. Iran has the capability to retaliate, and it will certainly deliver a counterstrike if necessary,\u201d he said. \u201cI even believe that if the Americans or their agents make a wrong move, they will suffer more damage than anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Sanctions losing effectiveness\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On the sanctions, the Leader said such measures are losing their effectiveness gradually as Iran has found ways to neutralize them.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver time, when sanctions persist globally, they gradually lose their impact. Even they (US officials) themselves admit this. They acknowledge that a sanctioned country can gradually find ways to neutralize sanctions and render them ineffective. We have discovered many such ways and have neutralized sanctions in many areas,\u201d the Leader said.<\/p>\n

However, Ayatollah Khamenei said that most of Iran\u2019s economic challenges stem from internal negligence and mismanagement rather than external sanctions.<\/p>\n

\u2018Resistance growing in power\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ayatollah Khamenei also addressed the martyrdom of prominent resistance leaders in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iran over the past year, including Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.<\/p>\n

While acknowledging the losses felt by the Resistance Front, the Leader emphasized that these setbacks do not signify weakness or decline.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, these brothers were incredibly valuable individuals whose absence is undoubtedly a loss for us, there\u2019s no doubt about that,\u201d Ayatollah Khamenei stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut today, despite their absence, we are stronger in some areas compared to last year on this very day. In other areas, we are at least as strong as before, if not stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that the loss of prominent figures does not mean retreat or weakness if two key factors remain intact: Having ideals and striving toward those ideals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf these two factors exist within a nation, then while the absence of such individuals may be a loss, it won\u2019t disrupt the overall movement forward,\u201d Ayatollah Khamenei said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe sat down for years and negotiated. This same person threw off the table and tore apart the concluded, finalized, and signed negotiations,\u201d Ayatollah Khamenei said. \u201cWhen we know he doesn\u2019t honor [agreements], what is the point of negotiating?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":87573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305035,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305034\/revisions\/305035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}