Ayatollah signals backing for a nuclear deal

 

TEHRAN, IRAN — Iran’s supreme leader offered a new signal of support yesterday for a deal to scale back his country’s nuclear program as negotiators race to meet a March 24 deadline.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose recent public pronouncements usually have been skeptical about the talks, promised in a speech to Iranian air-force officials that “I would go along with the agreement in the making,” the official IRNA news agency reported.

“Our negotiators are trying to take the weapon of sanctions away from the enemy,” he said. “If they can, so much the better. If they fail, everyone should know there are many ways at our disposal to dull this weapon.”

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