Overview

• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denied that U.S. action wiped out Iran’s nuclear industry, telling Trump to “keep dreaming” in posts on X and via state media.
• He rejected President Trump’s offer of renewed negotiations, saying any deal presented under coercion amounts to bullying rather than agreement.
• Trump has asserted that U.S. and Israeli forces bombed Iranian nuclear sites in June and warned of new strikes if Iran tries to restore its program.
• Reporting describes five rounds of indirect nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran that preceded a 12-day air campaign targeting Iranian sites in June.
• Khamenei dismissed Trump’s Gaza efforts and Israel visit as empty rhetoric, while Iran reiterated that its uranium enrichment is for civilian energy, not weapons.