Iran’s security chief Larijani says ‘will not negotiate’ with US

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Iran security chief Ali Larijani denied media reports that Iranian officials had sought to initiate talks with the Trump administration.

Iran security chief Ali Larijani denied media reports that Iranian officials had sought to initiate talks with the Trump administration.

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Tehran - Iran “will not negotiate with the United States”, Mr Ali Larijani, the powerful head of Tehran’s Supreme National Security Council said on March 2.

In a post on X, he denied media reports that Iranian officials had sought to initiate talks with the Trump administration following

a wave of US-Israeli strikes on Iran

over the weekend, which came after Tehran and Washington held nuclear negotiations.

US President Donald Trump’s “delusional fantasies” have plunged the Middle East into chaos, he said.

“Trump plunged the region into chaos with his ‘delusional fantasies’ and now fears more American troop casualties,” Mr Larijani wrote on X.

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