Iran Supreme Leader: Sanctions Didn’t Matter Because We Already Decided to Negotiate With “Satan” on Certain Issues, Talks About to Resume Reveal Hostility Toward Iran

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of
Iran, is
doing his part to up the rhetoric before nuclear talks between
Iran, the US, and four other countries resume in Geneva today.

From the Jerusalem Post:

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on
Thursday that nuclear negotiations with world powers had revealed
US “enmity” towards the Islamic state.

He was speaking hours before the resumption of talks in
Geneva.

“We had announced previously that on certain issues, if we feel it
is expedient, we would negotiate with the Satan (the United States)
to deter its evil,” Khamenei told a gathering, reported by the
official IRNA news agency.

You can read the Iranian state-run news agency’s English
language-version of the report on Khamenei’s comments
here.

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