Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday officially rejected convicted felon President Trump’s proposed agreement on the fascist theocracy’s nuclear program, with Hairy Al’s main sticking point the total proscription of uranium enrichment, Jewish Insider reports on another foreign policy failure that will be spun as somehow a victory for the toughest negotiator ever.

Khamenei announced the collapse of the talks during a speech at some other robed Shiite wizard’s grave, saying that Iran’s “enemies have focused all their attention on this very process of uranium enrichment… A nuclear industry without enrichment capabilities is useless because we would then be dependent on others to obtain fuel for our power plants,” and warning that without enrichment, Iran would be “reliant on them for radiopharmaceuticals, energy, desalination equipment and in tens of other critical sectors.” There’s been some back-and-forth on the reporting on whether Trump’s coffee boy Steve Witkoff had actually put a low allowance for enrichment on the table for the Iranians, but either way Trump nuked that provision in a Monday night Truth Social post.

“The rude, insolent US leaders want this. They’re opposed to progress and self-sufficiency for the Iranian people… Those in power today – the Zionists and the Americans – should know they can’t do a damn thing in this area,” Khamenei said as probably upward of a thousand armed personnel surrounded him to guard against ISIS suicide bombers and Iranian citizens angry at their low standard of living, shitty wages, lack of educational and employment opportunities, and so on.