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The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, has responded to an US proposal on Tehran’s nuclear program, describing the Trump administration as “rude” and “thoughtless.”
In his first comments since the United States presented during the weekend what he described as a “detailed and acceptable” proposal for an agreement on the subject, Iran’s last decision maker reiterated that the Islamic Republic would not stop enriching uranium.
“The United States leaders and the United States Rude say this [that Iran should not have a nuclear industry]”Khamenei said in a speech on Wednesday.
“Our response to the strong and registered meaning of an thoughtless US administration is clear,” he said, in the comments also addressed to Israel’s most aggressive line in Iran’s nuclear program. “The current leaders of the United States and Zionists should know that they cannot do anything about this.”
The enrichment, which can produce nuclear fuel and material of the degree of weapons, is in the heart of the conversations between the United States and Iran. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has repeatedly demanded that Tehran should dismantle his program completely.
Recent reports have said that he said that Washington has proposed to allow Iran to continue enriching uranium at low levels under a provisional agreement, before stopping it. A European official confirmed that the Trump administration had been informing that it would allow you to carry out a low level enrichment under a provisional agreement.
Diplomats say that about entry discussions between the two parties include the formation of a consortium, which would include US and regional countries to develop new facilities for low -level uranium enrichment. It is not clear where the facilities would be located.
But Trump this week again insisted that Iran must complement its nuclear program, something that the administration argues that it is necessary to prevent Tehran from acquireing nuclear weapons.
Iran’s leaders described to stop enrichment in the country’s floor as a red line, saying that their nuclear program is for civil use and that Tehran has the right to enrich Uranium as a signatory to the non -proliferation treaty.
“If we have 100 nuclear plants without uranium enrichment, it is useless,” Khamenei said. “Because nuclear plants need fuel, and if we cannot produce it in the country, we have to be the US, which could impose boxes of conditions to supply nuclear fuel.”
Washington and Tehran have so far a hero five rounds of conversations, facilitated by Oman, with Trump threatening military action against Iran if the negotiations break.
But the discussions have been complicated in the leg by mixed messages from the USA and the historical Drust between the two adversaries.
Trump, who abandoned a previous nuclear agreement between Tehran and the world powers lasted his first term, has returned to a position this year reimpsose sanctions to the Islamic Republic as part of his “maximum pressure” campaign.
Iran, in turn, has continued to increase uranium enrichment, with a UN nuclear control body that found that its enriched uranium arsenal had increased to a degree close to weapons by about 50 percent since February.
The Guardian dog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Iran was the only state of non -nuclear weapons that is known to have uranium enrichment in such a high degree, describing it as “a matter of serious concern.”
Iran’s leaders say they will not leave the negotiating table, and expect Gulf States to as Saudi Arabia can help persuade Trump to avoid military escalation and urge Israel to do the same.
“We are consistent about our position on uranium enrichment. It is the United States who cannot decide,” a senior Iranian official of Financial Times, without revaluing the details about the United States proposal. “However, we are working to maintain the sixth round of conversations.”
The idea of a consortium has been raised in the past, but never took off due to Iran’s insistence, any installation would have to be in the Republic.
It would have a goal of sacrificing both Iran and the United States a way of claiming a form of victory.
Iran could measure their national civil needs, while the United States could have dismantled the critical infrastructure of uranium conversion and processing, thus avoiding the regime of developing a nuclear bomb.
Khamenei insisted on Wednesday that Iran needed nuclear technology for a variety of crucial industries.
“This achievement is not just about energy,” he said. “The medical, pharmaceutical, aerospace, agricultural, environmental and engineering fields also depend on it.”