UN Spokesperson ‘Stephen Dujarric’ Welcomes Donald Trump’s Letter to Ali Khamenei and Ali Khamenei’s Reciprocal Response

“Stephen Dujarric,” spokesman for the United Nations, welcomed the sending of a letter from Donald Trump to Ali Khamenei, but Ali Khamenei showed a reaction to it.

Stephen Dujarric, spokesman for the United Nations, at his press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York yesterday, Friday, March 7, while welcoming the sending of a letter from Donald Trump to Ali Khamenei, said: “The United Nations emphasizes as a principle that diplomacy remains the best way to ensure the nature of Iran’s nuclear program. The United Nations welcomes all diplomatic efforts in this regard.”

Donald Trump, President of the United States, by referring to his desire to negotiate with Iran, has sent a letter to Ali Khamenei. He told reporters at the White House in this regard: “There will be interesting days ahead and this will happen very soon and this is all I can tell you. We hope to be able to have a peace agreement. I am not speaking from a position of strength or weakness, I am simply saying I prefer to see a peace agreement instead of ‘some other alternative.’ But someone else will solve the problem.”

Although Trump did not provide any explanation about the “other alternative,” he had repeatedly and explicitly referred to a possible Israeli attack on Iran.

Kayhan newspaper considered Trump’s purpose in writing this letter to be “influencing Iranian public opinion” and published an article titled “Trump’s Invitation to Negotiate or a Foolish Deception Operation?!” and wrote: “Such a proposal is more than anything else a deception operation for the subsequent actions of the U.S. government.”

“Ahmad Khatami,” interim Friday prayer leader of Tehran, also called negotiation with America “humiliation” in his Friday prayer sermon yesterday, the 17th of Esfand. Ali Khamenei met with government executives on Saturday, the 18th of Esfand. At this meeting, while rejecting negotiations between Tehran and Washington, he said: “The insistence of some bullying governments on negotiation is not aimed at solving problems. Rather, it is aimed at imposing and enforcing their own expectations. The Islamic Republic will certainly not accept their expectations.”

Ali Khamenei continued: “For them, negotiation is a way to present new expectations that go beyond the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and include defense capabilities, missile ranges, and Iran’s international capabilities. They repeat the name of negotiation so that they create pressure in public opinion. This is not negotiation, it is imposition, it is enforcement.”