Iran’s top leader casts doubt on efforts to revive a nuclear deal.

Iran’s apical person injected caller doubts Wednesday into the stalled effort to prevention the country’s 2015 atomic pact with large powers, accusing the United States of duplicity and chastising the outgoing Iranian president arsenic naïve.

The remarks by the leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, travel arsenic President Hassan Rouhani — an designer of the archetypal atomic accord — prepares to measurement down adjacent week aft 8 years.

The destiny of Iran’s negotiations with the United States to revive the accord, which person been suspended for much than a month, present falls to Mr. Rouhani’s successor, Ebrahim Raisi, an arch-conservative disciple of Mr. Khamenei.

The code and timing of Mr. Khamenei’s remarks, which helium delivered successful idiosyncratic to Mr. Rouhani and his furniture successful a gathering reported by Iranian authorities media, amounted to a nationalist rebuke of the departing president. They besides sent a connection that the negotiations are apt to look further challenges nether Mr. Raisi.