Iran’s U.N. mission said it would be willing to discuss its nuclear program if talks were restricted to military concerns, after its supreme leader appeared to reject President Trump’s offer to start discussions.

Iran said it would consider negotiations with U.S. if talks were confined to concerns about the militarization of its nuclear program.

President Donald Trump says he sent a letter to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a development that was not immediately confirmed by the supreme leader.

Former deputy national security advisor Victoria Coates discusses Iran’s response to President Donald Trump’s bid for nuclear talks on ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei decried “bullying governments” in an apparent response to a letter the White House sent to Iran earlier in the week.