Iran’s supreme leader to Trump: ‘You are not worthy of exchanging messages with’ | World News, The Indian Express

Iran’s supreme leader to Trump: ‘You are not worthy of exchanging messages with’ | World News, The Indian Express

By Express Web Desk |New Delhi |Published: June 13, 2019 5:33:06 pm

Iran’s supreme leader to Trump: ‘You are not worthy of exchanging messages with’

The ties between the two nations have unravelled ever since President Trump pulled itself out of an Iran nuclear deal in which the latter had agreed to curb its nuclear programme in return of lifting of international financial sanctions.

Japanese Prime Minister is on a visit to Iran to ease out the tensions between the US and the Islamic Republic. (Reuters)

Amid growing tensions between Tehran and Washington over the nuclear deal, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Thursday said he does not see US President Donald Trump as ‘worthy of any message exchange’. He was speaking with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tehran when he made this remark.