Negotiations with the US are neither wise nor rational and will do nothing to solve Iran’s problems, the country's supreme leader said on Friday, dismissing growing speculation that Tehran and Washington might be moving toward resuming their long-stalled talks.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday experience had proven that talks with the United States are "not smart, wise or honorable", the official IRNA news agency reported. This week U.

That includes balancing the demands of reformists within the country who want the talks against hard-line elements within Iran’s theocracy, including the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Khamenei noted that Trump unilaterally withdrew from the earlier nuclear deal under which Iran drastically limited its enrichment of uranium and overall stockpile of the material,