Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, has welcomed comments by President Barack Obama pushing diplomacy and not war as a solution to Tehran's nuclear ambition.
Iran's state TV reports Khamenei as praising a recent statement by the US president saying he saw a "window of opportunity" to use diplomacy to resolve the nuclear dispute. It is one of the rare cases in which Iran's top leader praised an American leader.
However Khamenei said the West's sanctions on Iran would fail.
Mr Obama on Tuesday said diplomacy can still resolve the nuclear crisis and accused his Republican critics of "beating the drums of war." |