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(CNSNews.com) – On the eve of a new round of Iran nuclear talks Tuesday, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei became the latest regime figure to challenge the Obama administration’s assertion that Iran’s missile program will be dealt with under a comprehensive nuclear deal due to be negotiated in the coming days and months.
Khamenei said the fact U.S. officials were now “bringing up human rights issues and Iran’s missile and defense capabilities” just further evidence of American animosity, suggesting that even if the nuclear dispute was resolved Iran’s enemies would raise “new issues.”
The Iranian nation “will never succumb to the bullying and blackmailing of the hegemonic order,” he said during a meeting in Tehran with visitors from north-western Iran.
In the remarks, which were posted on his official website, Khamenei also expressed pessimism about the talks succeeding, and lashed out at the “ugly” U.S., accusing it of violating human rights, supporting dictators and the “Zionist usurpers of Palestine,” and wanting to “rule the world.”