Ayatollah Khamenei received Assembly of Experts members on Thursday in Tehran according a tradition annually held after the Assembly’s annual session. Leader demanded that “positions should be made about US official’s bold remarks; if there is no sanctions removal, then there will be no deal either,” Leader said.
Leader pointed to ‘wider propaganda’ waged by the global imperialism to impose their own literature and terminology to authorities and leaders of other countries; “in this literature, terrorism and human rights takes special connotations; for example, six months of strikes against Yemeni civilians or against Gaza Strip are no longer terrorism; crackdown on popular rallies in Bahrain who seek their right to vote would not be proper violation of human rights,” the leader emphasized.
On nuclear negotiations, Ayatollah Khamenei told the meeting that the US had been the major player and one which “our negotiators talked to;” “however, their diction is far from being polite or appropriate; we should take positions and set clear lines against such remarks,” he demanded. “If sanctions are to remain in place, so for what had we been negotiating? This is against the reasons behind the Islamic Republic of Iran’s coming to negotiation table, since the sole objective has been having sanctions removed,” he asked rhetorically.
“If we made some concessions in the negotiations, we did so to have sanctions removed; otherwise, we would not consider sanctions as a viable option, and would rapidly expand our centrifuge system of 19,000 to 50,000-60,000 in a shortest possible time, and with it reach a 20 per cent uranium enrichment, and promote our R&D plans,” asserted the Leader, “I would not deem this statement acceptable that US made such remarks to sell the JCPOA to their domestic rivals in Congress; I believe the domestic strife in the US is real; they have struck a discord, since their rivals seek an answer or explanation for any line of the JCPOA,” he said.
“The current US officials conduct is not very much unlike that of their British cousins in the 19th century; they should come to understand the novel arrangements in the international community; no longer would any superpower act what it actually has in mind; furthermore, they now face an Islamic Republic of Iran which has known and unseen capabilities only possibly and accurately assessed in the time of action; Iran is not a poverty-stricken country of remote parts of Africa and would not be addressed as such,’ Ayatollah Khamenei indirectly addressed the US officials.
“For example, they work to wipe out resistance axis, full domination over Iraq and Syria, welcoming an Iranian presence and action in that framework; however, their wishes will not be fulfilled; government officials and other organizations should not give opportunity to the US to infiltrate inside the country, since their presence will translate into plight, disaster, and ingloriousness,” he told the meeting.
Regarding review of the JCPOA in Parliament Ayatollah Khamenei stated that "I have no advice to Parliament regarding the review of JCPOA and approval or disapproval of it; the representatives of nation are those who must decide about it."
“Government officials and nuclear negotiators have received directions on the official ban on talking to US on issues other than nuclear program,” said the Leader; on the realization of the objectives of Resistance Economic policies, he said that the realization would rule out the concerns over using the unfrozen assets; Resistance Economy should not be restricted by such distractions,” he concluded.
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