Khamenei prévient que le porte-avions américain dans le Golfe peut être coulé
Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei warned on Tuesday that the US aircraft carrier deployed in the Gulf could be sunk, as new indirect talks began in Switzerland between Washington and Tehran.
"We keep hearing" that the United States "sent a warship to Iran," he said in a speech. "A warship is certainly a dangerous weapon, but a weapon capable of sinking it is even more so," he insisted.
In January, Washington deployed the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to the Gulf region; it remains off the coast of Iran, approximately 700 kilometers from its shores. A second aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford, is scheduled to join it, though the date remains uncertain.
Donald Trump will not succeed in destroying the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei also declared.
"In one of his recent speeches, the American president said that for 47 years America has not succeeded in destroying the Islamic Republic... I tell you: you will not succeed," he said.
Mr. Khamenei expressed skepticism about the second round of talks that began Tuesday morning near Geneva to avert the risk of US military intervention.
"If there are to be negotiations - because there is really no room for negotiation - determining the outcome of the negotiations in advance is a mistake and madness," he commented, referring to repeated calls by the United States for Iran to abandon its nuclear program.
Western countries and Israel, considered by experts to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East, suspect Iran of wanting to acquire nuclear weapons.
Tehran denies harboring such ambitions, but insists on its "inalienable right" to develop a civilian nuclear sector and to enrich uranium, particularly for energy, in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to which it is a signatory.
"The statements of the American president, sometimes threatening, sometimes dictating what should or should not be done, reveal a desire to dominate the Iranian nation," the Iranian supreme leader fumed.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said in a video on Tuesday that lifting sanctions that were crippling the country's economy was "inseparable from any agreement on the nuclear issue."
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