Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that the United States will not provide guarantees to Tehran that the nuclear agreement will not be violated again, and that experience has proven that "trusting the West does not work," at a time when Iran is in talks with major powers to revive the agreement on its nuclear program, and is preparing to take over the presidency. New to the Republic.

The Supreme Leader’s statements came while he received members of the government and President Hassan Rouhani, who during his reign - starting in 2013 - adopted a policy of relative openness to the West, the most prominent of which was the conclusion of the 2015 nuclear agreement with 6 major powers (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China, and Germany).

Khamenei added that the United States insists on its positions in the nuclear negotiations in Vienna, and has not retreated from these positions;

This shows her stubbornness, as he put it.

The Iranian guide indicated that the United States is demanding, during the Vienna negotiations, the inclusion of a new clause in the nuclear agreement, which includes Tehran's agreement to negotiate other files in the future.

Khamenei added that Washington says that reaching an understanding on reviving the nuclear agreement will depend on agreeing to this new condition, which will turn it into a tool for meddling in Iran's affairs.

Khamenei said that the experience of trusting Western countries failed and was not successful during Rouhani's era, adding that the next government should benefit from this experience, which stresses the need not to place trust in Western countries.


American position

Meanwhile, Axios website quoted a senior US official as saying that Washington hopes that the new Iranian government does not think that it will get more than its predecessor on the nuclear deal, because its stance is more stringent.

The US official added that his country's position on the nuclear agreement will not change, and that the Iranians will not be able to reformulate the nuclear agreement again.

canceled agreement

The nuclear agreement made it possible to lift many of the sanctions that were imposed on Tehran, in exchange for limiting its nuclear activities and ensuring the peacefulness of its program.

But its effects have become null and void since former US President Donald Trump decided to withdraw from it unilaterally in 2018, and re-imposed sanctions on Tehran;

It caused a severe economic and social crisis.

US President Joe Biden - who assumed his duties at the beginning of this year - expressed his willingness to return to the agreement, on the condition that Iran returns to full respect for its obligations under it, after it gradually retreated from most of them, a year after the US withdrawal from it.

Iran and the countries still involved in the agreement began talks in Vienna in early April, with indirect US participation;

in an effort to revive him.

The parties engaged in 6 rounds of talks - between last April and June - without setting a date for a new round.

The sixth round of the Vienna negotiations ended in late June, when Tehran said that the delegations had returned to their capitals for consultations, while the United States said that major issues were still outstanding.

President Rouhani had previously promised to seek to lift the sanctions before the end of his term in early August, but Tehran confirmed this month that the resumption of talks will not take place before the new government assumes its duties.