LONDON – Iran will not negotiate with a West over a participation in a Middle East, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, days after a visiting French unfamiliar apportion sought to plead Tehran’s purpose in informal conflicts.
Jean-Yves Le Drian trafficked to Tehran on Monday with a brief to reaffirm Europe’s support for a chief understanding that non-stop Iran’s economy while echoing US regard about Tehran’s barb module and a change in a region.
“European countries come (to Tehran) and contend we wish to negotiate with Iran over a participation in a region. It is nothing of your business. It is a region. Why are we here?” Khamenei was quoted as observant by his central website.
Khamenei pronounced Iran would usually negotiate on that emanate with other states in a region.
“We will negotiate with America, when we wanted to be benefaction in America,” he added.
US President Donald Trump has threatened to lift out of a chief understanding unless 3 European signatories assistance “fix” a settle by forcing Iran to extent a lean in a Middle East and rein in a barb program.
French President Emmanuel Macron has criticized a module and lifted a probability of new sanctions.
Tehran supports Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in a government’s fight opposite insurgent forces, including groups corroborated by a West, and is an fan of Israel’s rivalry Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out during Iran during his debate to a Pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC, discussion in Washington this week. “We have to understanding with this challenge,” he said. “If we have a summary for we today, it’s a really elementary one: We contingency stop Iran. We will stop Iran.”
Netanyahu forked to a map display Iran’s inroads in a segment colored in black, and pronounced a Islamic Republic was perplexing to settle a land overpass from Tehran to Tartus on a Mediterranean. He pronounced Iran wants not usually to settle permanent troops bases in Syria, though also to make pointing guided missiles in Syria and Lebanon.
“I will not let that happen, we will not let that happen,” he said.
Herb Keinon contributed to this report