During an April 29 speech addressing Iran’s police force commanders, Qasem Soleimani of the Quds Force - the foreign operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) - weighed in on one of the hot topics in Iranian media: direct talks between Iran and the United States.
“The enemy [America] wants to drag us to the negotiating table through economic pressure, and this type of negotiation is an example of submission,” Soleimani said. “But our people are smart and intelligent and believe that negotiations with the enemy under current conditions is pure surrender and certainly we will not give in to this humiliation.”
