Ahead of the meeting, Rosenberg warned they would,
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"strategize how to help protect the wicked Iranian regime from crushing new economic sanctions designed to punish their illegal, relentless and incredibly dangerous effort to enrich enough uranium to build an entire arsenal of nuclear warheads"
Tensions between the United States and Iran have ratcheted up in recent weeks
Last week, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Khamenei said, Iran would not be bullied into negotiations, a day after US President Donald Trump revealed, Trump had sent a letter to Khamenei proposing talks on a new nuclear deal
Khamenei said,
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“Some bully governments – I really don’t know of any more appropriate term for some foreign figures and leaders than the word bullying – insist on negotiations” “Their negotiations are not aimed at solving problems, they aim at domination”
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian followed up Khamenei’s comments by telling the US
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“Do whatever the hell you want” “It is unacceptable for us that they [the US] give orders and make threats. I won’t even negotiate with you”
On Monday, Trump threatened to attack Iran if the Houthi terror group in Yemen resumed its attacks
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“Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN and IRAN will be held responsible and suffer the consequences and those consequences will be dire!”
