Top Iranian official: Trump and Iran's supreme leader will not meet

In an exclusive interview in Tehran, CNN's Fred Pleitgen sat down with Mohsen Rezaei, military adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since suffering injuries on the first day of the war.

General Rezaei's comments shed light on the thinking inside Iran's strategic decision-making circles. He shot down the possibility of a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, and also said that any potential US-Iran peace deal hinges on the Trump administration agreeing to release $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

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