Iran will not repeat its "bitter experience" of negotiating with the United States, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday, amid an escalating confrontation between Tehran and Washington.

Iranian leader tells Japan's Abe he has no reply to message from Trump

Iran rejected French calls for wider international talks over its nuclear and military ambitions, saying on Friday it would only discuss its existing 2015 atomic pact with world powers, state TV reported.

Iran rejects French call for wider talks beyond nuclear deal: Report

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that Tehran would not be "deceived" by US President Donald Trump’s offer of negotiations and would not give up its missile programme.

Iran will not abandon its missile programme: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei later this month with Tokyo hoping to mediate between Washington and Tehran, a report said Sunday.

Japan PM Abe to meet Iran's supreme leader Khamenei to mediate with US: Report

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday called the end of oil sanction waivers by the United States a "hostile measure" that "won't be left without a response".

US oil sanctions won't go 'without response': Iran

Iran’s top authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has replaced the chief commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards, state TV reported on Sunday, days after the United States designated the group a foreign terrorist organisation.

Iran's leader Khamenei appoints new chief for Revolutionary Guards

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the United States had made "a vicious move" in designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which he controls, as a foreign terrorist organisation, state TV reported on Tuesday.

Iran's Khamenei calls US blacklisting of Guards a 'vicious move'

Iranians will chant "Death to America" as long as Washington continues its hostile policies, but the slogan is directed at President Donald Trump and US leaders, not the American nation, Iran's supreme leader said on Friday.

'Death to America' aimed at Trump, not American nation, Iran leader says

Iran's top leader said on Saturday US President Donald Trump's policies face opposition across the world as Washington prepared to reimpose sanctions on Iran's vital oil-exporting and financial sectors, state television reported.

Before US sanctions, Iran's Khameini says 'world opposes every decision made by Trump'

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday that President Donald Trump has "disgraced" US prestige and would be the ultimate loser from renewing sanctions on the Islamic republic.

Trump has 'disgraced' US prestige: Iranian leader Khamenei

US troops will not fire on migrant caravan: Donald Trump US President Donald Trump said on Friday that illegal immigrants who throw rocks at the military would be arrested, but not fired upon by troops.

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The killing of 11 people in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in recent United States history has sparked a flood of international condemnation and warnings about the rise of hate speech.

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The people of Iran face a sensitive time because of the pressure from America and economic problems, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a key address broadcast by state television on Thursday.

Iran faces sensitive time due to America, economic woes: Khamenei

Iran faces sensitive time due to America, economic woes: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that the attackers who killed 25 people at a military parade were paid by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and that Iran would "severely punish" those behind the bloodshed.

Iran warns US, Israel of revenge after parade attack

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused US-backed Gulf Arab states of carrying out a shooting attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, almost half of them members of the country's elite Revolutionary Guards.

Iran's Khamenei accuses US-backed Gulf Arab states of carrying out attack on military parade

Iran's top authority criticised Trump for saying on Tuesday some countries in the Middle East "wouldn't last a week" without US protection

Iran's Khamenei urges Muslim nations to unite against US: State TV

Hassan Firuzabadi, senior military adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was responding to questions from local media on the recent arrest of environmentalists

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has supported the call for reduced military and Revolutionary Guards involvement in the economy

Opinion: Threatened by US sanctions, Iran focuses on economic thinking

'The people of Iran are crying out for freedom, all freedom-loving people must stand with their cause,' Haley said at a news conference

US envoy calls for emergency UN session on Iran

The assets are not directly in the name of Khamenei

Iran's supreme leader Khamenei has assets worth $95 billion: Report

Saudi?Arabia's powerful?Crown?Prince?called the Supreme?Leader?of?Iran?"the new Hitler of the Middle East" in an interview with the New York Times published on Thursday, sharply escalating the war of words between the arch-rivals

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments?come at a time of increasingly heated rhetoric between Iran, Israel and the United States

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Dismissing negotiations with the US, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said their aim is to undermine Iran's presence in the region

Iran's supreme leader Khamenei warns against US intervention in regional conflicts