"Their talks are not aimed at solving problems," said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, without mentioning the United States by name.

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.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei decried “bullying governments” in an apparent response to a letter the White House sent to Iran earlier in the week.

The letter appears to be President Trump’s opening bid to see if a newly vulnerable Iran is willing to negotiate.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he wants to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran and sent a letter to its leadership this week suggesting talks with the Islamic Republic, which the West fears is rapidly nearing the capability to make atomic weapons.

Russian diplomat Mikhail Ulyanov said President Donald Trump's denuclearization goal is "out of the question" but acknowledged that certain cuts are "quite understandable" in an interview with the state-run Rossiya-24 television channel,

Donald Trump has stated his support for the denuclearization of countries that already possess nuclear weapons. Speaking to reporters, the American president said he wanted to convince Russia and China to eliminate their nuclear arsenals,

The risk is of a new wave of nuclear proliferation, with a larger number of nuclear powers increasing the chance of either intentional or accidental use of atomic weapons—if not