Iran’s supreme leader harshly denounced the United States on Thursday as negotiations to conclude an interim agreement in the Iranian nuclear dispute resumed, saying those talks illustrated what he called the hostility of Americans toward Iran and the Muslim world. The remarks by the leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reported by Iran’s official news media, covered a range of grievances against the United States, including what he described as American hypocrisy on human rights issues, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which President Obama had promised to close. Ayatollah Khamenei also reiterated his contention that the American-led economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program had no relevance to the progress in the negotiations with six world powers in recent months under Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani. “The enemies think they imposed the embargo and forced Iran to negotiate,” he said. “No! We have already […]