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Iran leader: Nuclear issue won’t bring Iran to its knees

Reactions have been mixed inside Iran to the announced extension of the nuclear talks as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei remains defiant.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (LtoR) pose for photographers before a meeting in Vienna November 24, 2014. Iran, the United States and other world powers are all but certain to miss Monday's deadline for negotiations to resolve a 12-year stand-off over Tehran's atomic ambitions, forcing them to seek an extension, sources say. The ta
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on Iran’s nuclear matters, issued his first response since the announcement yesterday, Nov. 24, of another extension of the nuclear talks between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1).

At a conference of Muslim scholars and clerics held in Iran to address the threats of extremist groups, Ayatollah Khamenei said, “American and European colonialist countries gathered together to bring the Islamic Republic to its knees on the nuclear issue, but they were not able to, and in the future they will also not be able to.”

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