Stephane Dujarric welcomes Donald Trump's letter to Ali Khamenei and Ali Khamenei's response
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric welcomed Donald Trump's letter to Ali Khamenei, but Ali Khamenei reacted to it.
In his press conference at the UN headquarters in New York on Friday, March 7, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric welcomed Donald Trump's letter to Ali Khamenei and said: "The UN emphasizes as a matter of principle that diplomacy remains the best way to ensure the nature of Iran's nuclear program. The UN welcomes all diplomatic efforts in this regard."
US President Donald Trump has sent a letter to Ali Khamenei, indicating that he wants to negotiate with Iran. He told reporters at the White House: "There are going to be interesting days ahead and it will happen very soon and that's all I can tell you. Hopefully we can have a peace agreement. I'm not speaking from strength or weakness, I'm just saying I would rather see a peace agreement than 'another alternative.' But the other one will solve the problem."
Although Trump did not provide any explanation about the "other alternative", he had repeatedly explicitly mentioned a possible Israeli attack on Iran.
Kayhan newspaper considered Trump's goal in writing this letter to be "influencing Iranian public opinion" and published an article titled "Trump's invitation to negotiate or a stupid deception operation?!" and wrote: "Such a proposal is, more than anything, a deception operation for the US government's next moves."
Tehran's interim Friday prayer leader, Ahmad Khatami, also called negotiations with the United States "humiliation" in his Friday prayer sermon on March 8. Ali Khamenei met with regime officials on Saturday, March 9. In the meeting, he rejected negotiations between Tehran and Washington and said: "The insistence of some bully governments on negotiations is not to solve problems. Rather, it is to impose and impose their own expectations. The Islamic Republic will definitely not accept their expectations."
Ali Khamenei continued his speech by adding: "For them, negotiations are a path to setting new expectations that go beyond the Islamic Republic's nuclear program and include the Iranian government's defense capabilities, missile range, and international capabilities. They keep repeating the name of negotiations to create pressure on public opinion. This is not negotiation, it is tyranny, it is imposition."
