TEHRAN (AFP)--Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Thursday said that Iran has "no benefit" in resuming ties with the U.S. at the current time, state television reported.
"Cutting ties with the United States is one of our basic policies. We have never said that they will be cut for ever," Khamenei told students in a speech in the central city of Yazd.
"The conditions of the U.S. government are such now that it is harmful for us to resume relations," he added. "Despite some talkative people's claims, it has no benefit for the Iranian nation.
"The day that relations with the United States are beneficial to the Iranian nation, I will be the first one to approve of that."