Iran was the committed and loyal party to this treaty[JCPOA]: they [USA] have no excuse [for abandoning it]: the International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed this, many times. Others have confirmed that Iran has been strongly committed. They [USA] have no excuse! Nonetheless, you have all witnessed them easily violate this international treaty. They violated their own signature: they took back their own words and said they do not agree with it. Well, one cannot negotiate with such a [fickle] government. It is not possible to trust, work with or sign an agreement with such a capricious government: this is the gist of the matter.
Of course, when we said that they are not trustworthy, for us, this is only the proverbial illustration of the issue. When I look at regional issues and the issues of our own country, I see that they have acted in the same way towards others. From the year 1332 to 1357 – in other words, for 25 years – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was completely obedient to the USA. They treated him poorly, countless times. If you read the memoirs of Alam, you will see that he complains to his close companion about the behavior of the Americans. Of course, he did not dare do so in public or in direct conversations with the Americans. However, he was subservient to them till the end. After fate decided that the wretched and downtrodden Reza Pahlavi should leave Iran, they did not let him enter the US. However, for a while, he went and stayed there [in USA] for some time; but later on, they booted him out. They treated their close servant – who served them for 25 years – like he was nothing!
Hosni Mubarak had a comparable story [to Pahlavi]. During sensitive days, when the Egyptian Revolution had just begun, when it reached its peak, and when anything could happen at any moment, they [USA] supported him for one hour, then they rejected him several hours later, and a few hours afterward they changed their rhetoric once more. In the end, they [USA] abandoned Mubarak, and it was over for him: that was while Hosni Mubarak was completely dangling from their hands. He did whatever the USA asked for regarding Palestine and other issues. They are like this: the Americans are like this; the US government and the US regime operates like this.
Imam Khamenei, May 23, 2018
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