Iran’s Khamenei maintains tough rhetoric with US despite nuclear talks

Tehran’s chief diplomat says some ‘guiding principles’ are agreed, but the supreme leader presents a different tone.

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Tehran, Iran – Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has shot back at United States President Donald Trump and cast a pessimistic tone on negotiations with his administration even as Iran’s foreign minister says an understanding on “the guiding principles” of a deal has been reached.

The 86-year-old Khamenei said on Tuesday that Trump admitted that the US has tried to bring down the theocratic establishment in Iran since the country’s 1979 Islamic revolution but has failed.

Iran’s Khamenei maintains tough rhetoric with US despite nuclear talks

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