This week's Farda Briefing looks at why Iran continues to reject direct talks with the Donald Trump administration while weighing its response to the US president's nuclear outreach.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday rejected holding negotiations with the United States over a nuclear deal, as a letter was delivered from U.S. President Donald Trump calling for such talks.

Here’s what to know about the tension between countries, Iran’s nuclear program and a letter Donald Trump wrote to Iran’s Supreme Leader.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that talks with the U.S. would not lift sanctions but rather strengthen them.

Though Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said he's not interested in talks with a "bullying government,” its struggles with economic woes coupled with internal turmoil, and recent direct attacks by Israel,

The last time Trump tried to send a letter to Khamenei, through the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2019, the supreme leader mocked the effort. Abe ended up slipping the envelope under his leg in footage widely shared by Iranian state media to this day.

Iran's comments come after President Trump sent him a letter expressing his desire to negotiate a new nuclear deal, he told Fox News Channel on Sunday. Iran's Foreig

The US president says he has proposed talks on a deal to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons and to avert military action.