‘Biden, Trump harmed US’

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali accused Joe Biden and Donald Trump of damaging the reputation of the United States in rare direct criticism of US presidents, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported yesterday. "These days, the US is being hit in ways it never computed. The two American presidents - the current and former heads of state - have joined hands to tarnish the image of the United States," Khamenei said without elaborating. Iran and the United States resumed indirect talks in Vienna yesterday to revive a 2015 nuclear deal that former-US Trump left in 2018. While the US State Department says such negotiations are entering their "final stretch", Iranian officials have declared that part of their demands on sanctions removal have so far been left unaddressed in the Vienna talks.