Negotiations between Washington and Tehran look unstable as Iran boycotts the “red line” of U.S. negotiator Witkov.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei mocked the U.S. demands as negotiations between the two countries hang on, and it stopped nuclear abundance.
"Saying 'We will not allow Iran to enrich uranium' is nonsense,'" Khamenei said in a speech reported by the half-late MEHR news agency on Tuesday.
He added that he didn't know if the conversation would "bring results."
Since mid-April, Washington and Tehran have held four rounds of Oman-mediated talks aimed at getting Iran to limit its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
But the recurring conflict between the two has already underway for the next round of negotiations, News Agency, Reuters said, is expected to hold a weekend in Rome.
U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned the 2015 joint integrated action plan signed by Iran and the world's major powers during their term of office. He intends to reach a new deal since returning to power in January, resuming his “maximum pressure” approach to Iran, warning last week that “move quickly or something bad will happen.”
Tehran confirmed on Tuesday that it has received and is reviewing the U.S. proposal, but Iran's Deputy Foreign Secretary Majid Takht-Ravanchi said the day before that negotiations would fail if Washington insisted that Tehran refused to enrich uranium at home, which the U.S. said was a pathway to develop a nuclear bomb.
Iran is currently enriching uranium to 60%, far higher than the 3.67% limit set in the 2015 transaction, but less than the 90% required by nuclear warheads. It repeatedly insists that its plans are for peaceful purposes and are “not negotiable.”
But U.S. negotiator Steve Witkoff called the continuation of the program a "red line." On Sunday, he reiterated that the U.S. "even allows 1% enrichment capacity."
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that the deal to ensure Iran does not possess nuclear weapons is "at the fingertips".
However, he stressed that Iran will continue to enrich uranium “with or without an agreement”.
When it comes to negotiations on Iran's peaceful nuclear program, our American interlocutors are naturally free to publicly state anything they believe is suitable to avoid special interest groups; the minimum agenda is at least the previous government.
Iran can only...