Iran rejects US calls for negotiations

iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday ruled out the possibility of negotiation with the United States.

He made this known in his first public speech after President Donald Trump said he sent a letter to him.

In a meeting with Iranian officials in Tehran, khamenai said, “The insistence of some bullying governments on negotiations is not aimed at resolving issues but rather at asserting dominance and imposing their demands.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran will certainly not accept their demands,” he added.

His comments followed Trump’s revelation that he had sent Khamenei a letter offering negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program while warning that military intervention was the alternative.

Lebanese pro-Iranian TV channel ,Al Mayadeen, reported on Saturday that Tehran had refused to enter nuclear negotiations with the United States under the conditions set by the current US administration.

In his Saturday speech, Khamenei also lashed out at European countries for criticizing Tehran’s non-compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, calling them shameless.

Khamenei lamented, “Those three European countries are issuing statements, claiming that Iran has not fulfilled its nuclear commitments under the JCPOA! Someone should ask them: Have you fulfilled yours? You never did from the very beginning!”

Iran’s supreme leader said the E3 (France, Britain and Germany) promised to compensate after Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the nuclear deal in 2018, but they broke their promise.

He said, “Then you made another claim and broke that second promise as well. There should be a limit to shamelessness! How can someone fail to uphold their own commitments and then turn around and accuse the other side of non-compliance?”

Khamenei said the Rouhani administration at the time tolerated for a year, then the Parliament stepped in and passed a bill that effectively blocked the revival of the deal.

An Iranian online news agency reported that Khamenei said Iran stands against coercion and bullying,” he added.

Khamenei also criticized what he called the Western double standards on the free flow of information.

He said that no one can mention slain IRGC Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, or Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh,

These he said were protest the crimes committed in Palestine and Lebanon.

He said no one can deny what Hitler is claimed to have done to the Jews on Western-run social media.

The leaders of the Islamic Republic have a long history of Holocaust denial and Holocaust revisionism.

BACKGROUND OF HOLOCAUST

Holocaust denial refers to the rejection or minimization of the systematic persecution and extermination of six million Jews and millions of others deemed undesirable by the Nazi regime during World War II.

The denial often involves distorting or manipulating historical facts to support a false narrative that the Holocaust was exaggerated, fabricated, or did not occur at all.

In the context of Iran, Holocaust denial has been a contentious issue, with former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and current Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei making public statements that deny

Or downplay the significance of the Holocaust.

Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a number of statements claiming The Holocaust as is commonly accepted is “a myth” and “a lie”.

Former President Ebrahim Raisi also cast doubt on whether the Holocaust happened in a 2022 interview with CBS News.

On January 20, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution that condemned the denial and distortion of the Holocaust. Iran was the only country in the world that condemned and rejected the resolution.

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