Iran rejects US push for nuclear talks
Supreme leader Ayatollah Khameni says his country won't be bullied into US nuclear talks
The Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameni said Iran will not be bullied into new talks on the country鈥檚 nuclear programme describing the US as a bullying power.
Also in the programme: After a frantic week of diplomacy, we analyse the European Union鈥檚 strong pledge to continue its support for Ukraine and speak to Andrius Kubilius, the EU's first Commissioner for Defence. Plus, the latest from Syria where reports say more than a thousand people have been killed in recent violence in western Syria, many of them civilians allegedly shot dead by the security forces.
Joining presenter Julian Worricker to discuss these and other stories of the day are Jana Puglierin, German political analyst and a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Richard Caplan, professor of International Relations at University of Oxford.
(Picture: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during the 35th anniversary of the death of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, at Khomeini's shrine in southern Tehran, Iran June 3, 2024. Credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA)