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Senior Iranian official says Trump ‘betraying diplomacy’ by continuing US naval blockade
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In this picture made available by Young Journalists Club, YJC, then-presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaei speaks with state-run TV journalists in Tehran, Iran, June 12, 2021. (Ayoub Ghaderi/ Young Journalists Club, YJC via AP/File)
Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, writes on X that US President Donald Trump is “betraying diplomacy” by failing to lift the US blockade on Iran-linked shipping.
“As expected, the president of the United States is betraying diplomacy for the third time,” Rezaei says.
The two previous times appear to refer to the Israeli bombing campaign launched on Iran in June last year, and the US-Israeli bombing campaign launched on February 28, both times amid indirect US-Iran nuclear talks.
“By continuing the naval blockade and making excessive demands in negotiations,” said Rezaei, Trump has “again proven he is not inclined toward negotiations and is pursuing other goals.”
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