Top leader: Policy to US unchanged

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday a landmark nuclear deal won't change his country's policy toward the "arrogant" US, making his first public speech since the Islamic Republic's historic pact with six world powers.

Khamenei said a more wide-ranging agreement with the US is unlikely, striking a different pose than moderate President Hassan Rouhani, who earlier said the Vienna accord could "step-by-step remove bricks from the wall of mistrust" between Iran and the US

However, the ayatollah's remarks also praised the Iranian negotiators who struck the deal. That likely means he won't offer a major criticism of the deal as Iran's Parliament and its Supreme National Security Council, the nation's highest security decision-making body, consider the agreement in the coming days.