A representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Friday that negotiations may be a way to forward to achieve Tehran's constant goal: the “destruction of Israel.”
Khamenei’s Deputy Representative to the Revolutionary Guards Abdullah Haji Sadeqi said Iran will not hold negotiations with any party to the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in June, reported Iran’s ILNA news agency.
“Negotiations are an option in the path to destroy Israel,” he added.
The Iranian foreign ministry had denied new claims that a new time and place had been set to resume negotiations with Washington.
On Thursday, US President Donald Trump taunted Iranian slain General Qassem Soleimani, whose killing he ordered during his first term in office. Soleimani was killed in an attack near Baghdad airport in January 2020.
“You know who did the roadside bomb, right? Soleimani. Where is he? Where is he? Where is Soleimani?” he wondered mockingly.
He made his remarks before a White House ceremony recognized nearly 100 recipients of the Purple Heart.
Trump described Soleimani as “father of the roadside bomb.”
“They say 92% of the people who got either killed or badly hurt, it was Soleimani. He was the one that did it more than anybody else by far,” he added.
