Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday that the administration of US President Donald Trump was “not worthy” of contact or cooperation with Tehran.

“Such a government is not worthy of being approached or cooperated with by a government like the Islamic Republic,” Khamenei said in a televised speech, rejecting rumors that Iran had sent messages to Washington as a “pure lie.”

His remarks came on the occasion of a state-designated day celebrating the Basij forces, a paramilitary force under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Khamenei said the United States and Israel had failed “to achieve any objectives” during the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in June, which ended with a US-brokered ceasefire on June 24, two days after the US carried out extraordinary strikes on key Iranian nuclear facilities. The war derailed US-Iran nuclear talks that had begun in April.

During his speech, Khamenei........

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