Khamenei says nuclear talks with US would be ‘dead-end,’ Tehran won’t give up uranium enrichment

By Agencies 23 September 2025, 8:32 pm

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him speaking during a meeting with the cabinet members in Tehran, on September 7, 2025. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says that negotiations with the United States would not serve Tehran’s interests and would prove a “dead-end.”

In a recorded message, Khamenei also says Iran would not “surrender to pressure” regarding uranium enrichment, and he reiterated Tehran’s long-standing official position that it does not need nuclear weapons and has no intention of producing them.

“The American side has been adamant that Iran must not have (uranium) enrichment,” Khamenei says. “We did not surrender, and we will not.”