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Iran’s top leader denounced the US proposal aimed at restraining Tehran’s nuclear efforts and called for his country to remain independent in reports that Washington had offered to be involved in Tehran’s nuclear program.
As Iran claims its right to enrich the nuclear, several talks remain between the two sides to break the major anchor point of the new nuclear deal.
“The first words of the United States are that Iran should not have a nuclear industry, he should resort to the United States,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the crowd gathered in Tehran to commemorate the death of Imam Khomeini, the founder of Iran’s Islamic Republic.
“Our response to the US is clear. They can’t do anything clever about this,” he said.
The US sent a nuclear deal proposal to Iran on Saturday. CNN suggests that the US could invest in Iran’s private nuclear programmes and participate in a consortium that oversees the enrichment of low levels of uranium within Iran for an unspecified period. Its potential consortium is expected to include the International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear watchdog of the Middle East and the United Nations.
Khamenei said Wednesday that Iran refused to allow the US to give “green lights or red lights” in its nuclear program, emphasizing “national independence.”
A senior Iranian official told CNN on Monday that the US proposal was “inconsistent, disjointed, highly unrealistic and excessively demanding.”
US President Donald Trump said Monday that the deal would not allow uranium enrichment, as it appears to be in opposition to what was proposed to Iran.
“Under our potential agreement, we will not allow uranium enrichment,” Trump wrote in a post about his true social platform.
Iran’s top leader added on Wednesday that his country can “achiev in a full nuclear energy cycle.”
“Uranium enrichment is an important part of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and we will not abandon it,” Khamenei said.
Iran and the United States concluded their fifth round of high-stakes nuclear talks in Rome on May 23rd. After that round of debate, both sides “consented to meet again in the near future,” a senior US administration official said at the time.
Previous report by Kylie Atwood and Frederik Pleitgen.
