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referred to by Iranian officials as​ ​“the Den of Spies”.
“The US has not changed since decades ago ... it continues the same aggressive, vicious behaviour and the same international dictatorship,” Khamenei added. “Iran has a firm, iron will. It will not let America return to Iran.”
Khamenei also poured scorn on French President Emmanuel Macron for trying to arrange talks between the foes on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York in September.
“The French president, who says a meeting will end all the problems between Tehran and America, is either naive or complicit with America,” Khamenei said in remarks reported by state television.
The unveiling ceremony for the murals was attended by numerous Iranian officials, including Brigadier General Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and other senior military officials.
“The US is the major exporter of weaponry and the main party of different wars across the globe, while in America articles on ensuring peace in the world feature in big discussion,” Salami said at the event.
He added: “US military power illustrates that it seeks nothing more than creating chances for destroying the earth. While Americans speak of combatting mass destruction weapons, their country is the first that achieved atomic weapons and used them.”
In response to the embassy capture and hostage taking, Washington under US President Jimmy Carter on November 14, 1979, stopped buying Iranian oil, froze Iranian deposits in American banks and their foreign branches and banned the sale of military equipment parts to Iran.
After the severance of diplomatic relations between the US and Iran in April 1980, bans were imposed on the export of American goods to Iran, including food and medicine, on money transfers the country and the imports of Iranian goods.
Tehran and Washington still have no diplomatic relations. They use the Swiss and Pakistani embassies in Tehran and Washington to officially send messages.
2.3 ​US ‘to renew waivers on nuclear non-proliferation work with Iran’
The US reportedly plans to permit Russian, Chinese and European companies to continue work at Iranian nuclear facilities to make it harder for Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
The Trump administration, which last year pulled out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and re-imposed sanctions on Iran, will let the work go forward by issuing waivers to sanctions that bar non-US firms from dealing with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), sources who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity said.
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