Iran's supreme leader says 'cowardly' US cannot be trusted
As Iran awaits a new president set to take office Aug. 3, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the West cannot be relied upon in future negotiations.
As the United States and other Western nations await for the new Iranian administration to take over Aug. 3 in order to complete negotiations on the nuclear deal, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has suggested that deep differences still remain.
In a July 28 meeting with outgoing President Hassan Rouhani and his Cabinet, Khamenei summed up the Rouhani administration's performance as “uneven.” He said while some of the administration's performance went “as expected,” other aspects did not.
Khamenei added that the next administration must learn from the experiences of the current one. One lesson Khamenei wants the next administration to learn is that the West cannot be trusted. He added, “With this administration it became clear that trusting the West does not yield results and that [the West] will not help and will inflict harm wherever they can. And if there is a place that they cannot inflict harm it is because they can't.”
Khamenei continued, “Absolutely we cannot make domestic plans conditional on the West.”
