{"id":19070,"date":"2025-03-09T13:26:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T07:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=19070"},"modified":"2025-03-09T13:26:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T07:41:55","slug":"irans-top-leader-rejects-talks-with-the-us-over-missile-range-regional-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/irans-top-leader-rejects-talks-with-the-us-over-missile-range-regional-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s top leader rejects talks with the US over missile range, regional influence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Speaking to a group of officials on Saturday, Khamenei did not identify the United States by name but said a \u201cbullying government\u201d was being persistent in its push for talks.<\/p>\n

“Their talks are not aimed at solving problems, it is for … let\u2019s talk to impose what we want on the other party that is sitting on the opposite side of the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khamenei\u2019s remarks came a day after President Donald Trump acknowledged sending a letter to Khamenei seeking a new deal with Tehran to restrain its rapidly advancing nuclear program and replace the nuclear deal he withdrew America from during his first term in office.<\/p>\n

Khamenei said U.S. demands would be both military and related to the regional influence of Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will be about defense capabilities, about international capabilities of the country. (They will urge Iran) not to do (certain) things, not to meet some certain people, not to go to a certain place, not to produce some items, your missile range should not be more than a certain distance. Is it possible for anybody to accept these?\u201d<\/p>\n

Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters, said such talks would not address solving problems between Iran and the West. Though Khamenei did not name any person or country, he said the push for talks creates pressure on Iran in public opinion. \u201cIt is not negotiation. It is commanding and imposition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Trump in comments to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday did not mention the letter directly. But he made a veiled reference to possible military action, saying: \u201cWe have a situation with Iran that, something\u2019s going to happen very soon. Very, very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

His overture comes as both Israel and the United States have warned they will never let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon, leading to fears of a military confrontation as Tehran enriches uranium at near weapons-grade levels \u2014 something only done by atomic-armed nations.<\/p>\n

Tehran has long maintained its program is for peaceful purposes, even as its officials increasingly threaten to pursue the bomb as tensions are high with the U.S. over its sanctions and with Israel as a shaky ceasefire holds in its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s accelerated production of near weapons-grade uranium puts more pressure on Trump. He\u2019s repeatedly said he\u2019s open to negotiations with the Islamic Republic while also increasingly targeting Iran\u2019s oil sales with sanctions as part of his reimposed \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d policy.<\/p>\n

Late in August, Khamenei in a speech opened the door to possible talks with the U.S., saying there is \u201cno harm\u201d in engaging with the \u201cenemy.\u201d However, more recently the supreme leader tempered that, saying that negotiations with America \u201care not intelligent, wise or honorable,\u201d after Trump floated nuclear talks with Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iran\u2019s 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 by name but said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19071,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19070\/revisions\/19071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}