„Iran’s supreme leader said Sunday Washington has continued its animosity toward Tehran, despite a friendly message by President Barack Obama marking the Persian New Year. In a New Year’s speech on Sunday in the northern city of Mashhad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US had not kept to its commitment to lift sanctions as part of a nuclear deal. ‚From one hand they send a New Year message and on the other hand they have kept economic sanctions‘ against Iran. ‚This is enmity,” he said in the address, which was broadcast on state TV.“ (Bericht in der israelischen Tageszeitung Times of Israel: „Iran leader accuses US of reneging on nuclear deal“)
Iran: Revolutionsgarde droht, Israel in »verbrannte Erde« zu verwandeln
Zugleich erklärte US-Außenminister Marco Rubio, der Iran und nicht die Palästina-Frage sei das Haupthindernis für Frieden und Stabilität im Nahen Osten.
