Iran’s Khamenei says US can not be trusted

TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Sunday that Washington was “not trustworthy,” after former US officials and lawmakers urged diplomacy with the Islamic republic’s incoming President Hassan Rowhani.

“I said at the beginning of the [Iranian] year that I am not optimistic about negotiations with the US, though in the past years I did not forbid negotiating [with them] about certain issues like Iraq,” he told top officials at an “iftar” evening meal that breaks the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.