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Iran’s supreme leader has doubted that nuclear conversations with the US will lead to a new agreement and say that the “excessive and shameful” demands on uranium enrichment had imposed.
“We don’t think it will lead to a result. We don’t know what will happen,” said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The American President Donald Trump said last week that Iran had “kind of” agreed to the conditions of a deal after four rounds of conversations that have been mediated by Oman since 12 April.
But for another round planned for this weekend, the main negotiator of Iran rejected the claim of his American counterpart that it should bind to stop producing enriched uranium, which can be used to make reactor fuel but also nuclear weapons.
Trump, who got the US from a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and World Forces during his first term of office, has warned Iran that it could be confronted with us and Israeli military action if the conversations are not successful.
Iran insists that his nuclear activities are completely peaceful and it will never try to develop or acquire nuclear weapons.
However, it has violated restrictions that have been imposed by the existing nuclear deal in retribution for paralyzing American sanctions that were restored seven years ago and has started sufficiently enriched uranium to make different bombs.
Khamenei spoke the latest developments in Iran’s negotiations with the US during a ceremony in honor of deceased President Ebrahim Raisi, who died a year ago in a helicopter crash.
He praised Raisi, a colleague -hardly spiritual, for refusing direct conversations with the US while he was in office.
“He clearly said” no “without ambiguity,” Kamanei remarked, adding that Raisi did not let Iran drag the negotiating table due to threats or tricks. “
Khamenei said that nuclear conversations among the predecessor of Raisi, the moderate spiritual Hassan Rouhani, could not have achieved and that he did not think there would be any breakthrough among his successor, Masoud Pezeshkian, who is a reformist.
The supreme leader also criticized the approach of the Trump government and said, “The American side in these indirect conversations should avoid nonsensical comments.”
“Saying that they do not allow Iran to enrich is a big mistake. Nobody is waiting for their permission.”
American special envoy Steve Witkoff told ABC News in an interview on Sunday: “We cannot even allow 1% of an enrichment options. We have made the Iranians a proposal that we think is tackling part of this without respecting them.”
He added: “We want to reach a solution here. And we think that will be possible.”
“But everything starts from our position with a deal that does not include enrichment. We can’t have that. Because enrichment makes weapons possible and we do not allow a bomb here.”
The Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi responded quickly through warning Witkoff: “Returning unrealistic expectations with negotiations, enrichment in Iran is not something that can be stopped.”
“I think he is completely at a distance from the reality of the negotiations,” he added.
The 2015 deal that Iran reached with the then President Barack Obama’s government, as well as the VK, France, China, Russia and Germany, saw it limiting its nuclear activities and allowing inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in exchange for sanctions.
Iran was only allowed to enrich uranium up to 3.67% purity, which can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power stations.
In February, the International Atomic Energy Agency warned that Iran had stored almost 275 kg (606 lb) of Uranium enriched to 60% purity, which is close to arms quality. That would be theoretical enough, if enriched to 90%, for six nuclear bombs.
