Iran says it will continue nuclear talks with the US, shrugging off Trump's threats

TEHRAN – Iran’s president said his state volition proceed talks with the United States implicit its rapidly advancing atomic program but volition not retreat from its rights due to the fact that of U.S. threats.

“We are negotiating, and we volition negociate , we are not aft warfare but we bash not fearfulness immoderate threat," President Masoud Pezeshkian said during a code to navy officials broadcast by authorities tv Saturday.

“It is not similar that they deliberation if they endanger america , we volition springiness up our quality close and definite right,” Pezeshkian said. “We volition not withdraw, we volition not easy escaped honorable military, scientific, atomic successful each fields.”

The negotiations person reached the “expert” level, meaning the sides are trying to scope statement connected the details of a imaginable deal. But a large sticking constituent remains Iran’s enrichment of uranium, which Tehran insists it indispensable beryllium allowed to bash and the Trump medication progressively insists the Islamic Republic indispensable springiness up.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to unleash airstrikes targeting Iran’s program if a woody isn’t reached. Iranian officials progressively pass they could prosecute a atomic weapon with their stockpile of uranium enriched to adjacent weapons-grade levels.

Earlier connected Friday, Trump said Iran received a proposal during the talks, though helium did not elaborate.

During his trip to portion this week, Trump astatine astir each lawsuit insisted Iran could not beryllium allowed to get a atomic bomb, thing U.S. quality agencies measure Tehran is not actively pursuing, though its programme is connected the cusp of being capable to weaponize atomic material.

Mohammad Eslami, the caput of Iran’s atomic organization, stressed the peaceful quality of the program, saying it is nether “continuous” monitoring by the U.N. atomic watchdog, authorities TV reported Saturday.

“No state is monitored by the bureau similar us,” Eslami said, adding that the bureau inspected the country’s atomic facilities much than 450 clip successful 2024. “Something astir 25% of each the bureau inspections” successful the year.

Meanwhile, Israel routinely has threatened to onslaught Iran’s atomic facilities if it feels threatened, further complicating tensions successful the Mideast already spiked by the Israel-Hamas warfare successful Gaza.

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