"The time is coming up. Something is going to happen one way or the other."

'It is not negotiation. It is commanding and imposition,' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says

Tehran dismisses nuclear negotiations prospects while Iran remains under heavy US sanctions

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei decried “bullying governments” in an apparent response to a letter the White House sent to Iran earlier in the week.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he rejects a U.S. push for talks between the two countries because they would be aimed at imposing restrictions on Iranian missile range and its influence in the region. Speaking to a group of officials on Saturday, Khamenei did not identify the United States […]

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that certain "bullying" powers' insistence on holding talks with Iran is not aimed at resolving issues but rather at imposing their own expectations.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said in a series of X posts Saturday he would not negotiate a nuclear deal with the U.S. due to its demands.

Trump made the comments in an interview aired on Friday by Fox Business News, saying he wrote to Iranian leaders.