Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said calls for negotiations by “bully states” are aimed at dominating others, not resolving issues, after US President Donald Trump urged him to reach a nuclear deal.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi on Thursday said nuclear talks between his country and the United States are possible only on equal terms. Recall that U.S. President Donald Trump last week said he had sent a letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei proposing nuclear talks but also warned that there are two ways Iran can be

China and Russia are both permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, along with France and Britain, that took part in the original 2015 Iran nuclear deal preliminary framework agreement. Trump withdrew America from the accord in 2018, setting in motion years of tensions in the wider Middle East.