Pezeshkian says never accepts talks with shameless Trump

TABNAK Mar. 12 - "When you threaten me, I don't want to negotiate with you. Do whatever damn thing you can," according to the Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in response to US President Donald Trump's bullying call for direct talks.

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Date: 12 March 2025 - 09:18

"You should be ashamed of yourself after what you did to [Ukrainian President] Zelensky recently," Pezeshkian said in a speech on Tuesday in an apparent reference to recent unprecedented live televised quarrel between visiting the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with President Donald Trump and his Vice President JD Vance in the White House.

The Iranian president pointed to the reiteration of threats against Iran by the US president and said that  "When you threaten me, I don't want to negotiate with you. Do whatever damn thing you can."

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei recently rejected the US bullying call for talks with Tehran as dishonorable and senseless.

More recently,  Ayatollah Khamenei said that calls for negotiations by “bully states” are aimed at dominating others, not resolving issues.

Donald Trump pulled his country out of the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal unilaterally in May 2018 and reasserted his futile Maximum Pressure Campaign against Tehran when he returned to the White House earlier this year. Iran has said it will not negotiate under pressure. Washington has admitted that its call for talks is aimed at depriving Iran of its peaceful nuclear program and its defensive missiles.