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Khamenei condemns Republican letter to Iran threatening to scrap deal
(MENAFN- Arab News) TEHRAN: Iran''s Supreme Leader hit out on Thursday at a letter by US Republican senators threatening to undo any nuclear deal between Washington and Tehran saying he was worried because the United States was known for ''backstabbing'' Mehr news agency reported.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the ultimate authority on all Iranian matters of state added at a meeting with President Hassan Rouhani and senior clerics that whenever negotiators made progress the Americans became ''harsher tougher and coarser.''
The letter signed by 47 Republican senators warned Iran that any nuclear deal made with US President Barack Obama a Democrat could last only as long as he remained in office an unusual intervention into US foreign policy-making.
The White House has described the letter as ''reckless'' and ''irresponsible'' saying it interfered with efforts by six major powers to negotiate with Iran on a deal to prevent it from building a nuclear bomb.
Mehr quoted Khamenei as saying: ''Of course I am worried because the other side is known for opacity deceit and backstabbing.
''Every time we reach a stage where the end of the negotiations is in sight the tone of the other side specifically the Americans becomes harsher coarser and tougher. This is the nature of their tricks and deceptions.''
The clerical Supreme Leader said the letter was ''a sign of the decay of political ethics in the American system'' and he described as risible long-standing US accusations of Iranian involvement in terrorism.
US Secretary of State John Kerry Washington''s chief nuclear negotiator voiced ''utter disbelief'' at the senators'' action saying the notion that they could alter any executive accord between government leaders was ''flat wrong.''
Meanwhile German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier also criticized Republican senators over their letter fearing that the political stunt could undermine Tehran''s confidence in the ongoing negotiations.
''This is not just an issue of American domestic politics but it affects the negotiations we are holding in Geneva'' Steinmeier told journalists in Washington before meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
''Obviously mistrust is growing on (...) the Iranian side if we are really serious with the negotiations.''
Steinmeier added it would be good ''if the letter of the 47 senators no longer causes any disturbance in the negotiations.''
''Iran''s path to the nuclear bomb must be blocked in an unambiguous verifiable and durable way'' Steinmeier said.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the ultimate authority on all Iranian matters of state added at a meeting with President Hassan Rouhani and senior clerics that whenever negotiators made progress the Americans became ''harsher tougher and coarser.''
The letter signed by 47 Republican senators warned Iran that any nuclear deal made with US President Barack Obama a Democrat could last only as long as he remained in office an unusual intervention into US foreign policy-making.
The White House has described the letter as ''reckless'' and ''irresponsible'' saying it interfered with efforts by six major powers to negotiate with Iran on a deal to prevent it from building a nuclear bomb.
Mehr quoted Khamenei as saying: ''Of course I am worried because the other side is known for opacity deceit and backstabbing.
''Every time we reach a stage where the end of the negotiations is in sight the tone of the other side specifically the Americans becomes harsher coarser and tougher. This is the nature of their tricks and deceptions.''
The clerical Supreme Leader said the letter was ''a sign of the decay of political ethics in the American system'' and he described as risible long-standing US accusations of Iranian involvement in terrorism.
US Secretary of State John Kerry Washington''s chief nuclear negotiator voiced ''utter disbelief'' at the senators'' action saying the notion that they could alter any executive accord between government leaders was ''flat wrong.''
Meanwhile German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier also criticized Republican senators over their letter fearing that the political stunt could undermine Tehran''s confidence in the ongoing negotiations.
''This is not just an issue of American domestic politics but it affects the negotiations we are holding in Geneva'' Steinmeier told journalists in Washington before meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
''Obviously mistrust is growing on (...) the Iranian side if we are really serious with the negotiations.''
Steinmeier added it would be good ''if the letter of the 47 senators no longer causes any disturbance in the negotiations.''
''Iran''s path to the nuclear bomb must be blocked in an unambiguous verifiable and durable way'' Steinmeier said.
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