article_snippet: Iran has been largely isolated for years for Iran nuclear program, one that Iran leaders say Iran wants for peaceful purposes.
article_snippet: Others, like the United States, have challenged that assertion and instituted strict sanctions, fearing that Tehran actually plans to develop nuclear weapons.
article_snippet: The Iranian President's guarded optimism Saturday -- which also happens to be Nowruz, a holiday marking the start of spring and beginning of a new year in the Persian calendar --
article_snippet: The debate has generated heated disagreements not only in Switzerland, but also in Washington, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Congress on March 3 at the invitation of Republican leaders to warn about any nuclear deal with Iran.
article_snippet: The speech was made without the approval of U.S. President Barack Obama.
article_snippet: Late Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama reached out "directly to the people and leaders of Iran," in a video message recorded ostensibly for Nowruz, to urge the people and leaders of Iran to back a deal curtailing Tehran's nuclear program.
article_snippet: But Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei own Nowruz address on Saturday, noted the political divisions within the United States over the nuclear talks, Iran's state-run Press TV reported.
article_snippet: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggested the U.S. President's Nowruz message "included dishonest assertions and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claim of friendship for Iranian people was not sincere," Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is quoted as saying.
article_snippet: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also said U.S. President Barack Obama had claimed falsely that some people in Iran did not back a diplomatic resolution to this issue.
article_snippet: What some people in Iran are in fact resisting is the bullying approach of the United States, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, according to Iran's state-run Press TV.
article_snippet: Iran will never accept this," Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said.