Khamenei rebuffs U.S. offer of direct talks

(Reuters) - Iran's highest authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Thursday slapped down an offer of direct talks made by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden this week, saying they would not solve the problem between them.

"Some naive people like the idea of negotiating with America, however, negotiations will not solve the problem," Khamenei said in a speech to officials and members of Iran's air force carried on his official website.

"If some people want American rule to be established again in Iran, the nation will rise up to face them," he said.

"American policy in the Middle East has been destroyed and Americans now need to play a new card. That card is dragging Iran into negotiations."

Khamenei made his comments just days after Joe Biden said the United States was prepared to meet bilaterally with the Iranian leadership. "That offer stands but it must be real and tangible," Biden said in a speech in Munich.

sound policy ...but dangerous.
but then again that's the nature of the game period..dangerous

"If some people want American rule to be established again in Iran, the nation will rise up to face them," he said.

They know that Iran cannot be defeated militarily and so they now want to talk , the Iranians are correct to reject bilateral talks with the empire as long as these sanctions are in place