| Iran's Supreme Leader Rejects VP Biden's Offer To Talk Nukes |
| Feb-08-2013 |
| Keywords: iran, nuclear weapons, direct talks, united states, |
Responding to a suggestion from Vice President Joe Biden that the U.S. was open to one-on-one talks with Iran about its nuclear program, the Islamic Regime's supreme leader says his county will not sit down for direct talks as long as the U.S. is threatening Iran.
On his website, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, "They say the ball is in Iran's court. The ball is in your court... You have to be accountable and explain what it means to offer talks while simultaneously continuing pressure and threats."
Khamenei apparently referring to the U.S. tightening sanctions on Iran - even tough sanctions than those that have slashed Iran's oil revenue by 45%.
The supreme leaders comments also follow his nation's attempt to embarrass the United States by claiming it was able to crack our military technology seized when it captured a CIA spy drone back in December 2011.
"We were able to definitively access the data of the drone, once we brought it down," said the chief of the Revolutionary Guard's airspace division, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
Iran claims that it was able to reverse engineer U.S. technology, giving it the capability to manufacture its own line of unmanned drones.
Where or not Khamenei's rebuff of the VP's offer for direct talks is posturing or not, the tension between the two countries could spill over into negotiations in Kazakhstan later this month, when Iran's schedule to sit down with six-nation group, all U.N. Security Council members regarding its nuclear program. |
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