Iran rejects Trump “threats”, says the nuclear discussions are continued

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The Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that his country preferred negotiations with the United States to avoid war, but declined what he described as threats of President Donald Trump.

“We are not looking for a war, we prefer negotiations and dialogue, but we are also not afraid of threats, and we will in no way withdraw from our legal rights,” said Pezeshkian on Saturday at an event in the Port City of Bandar Abbas.

It is unclear what Pezeshkian refers to, but Trump told reporters during a trip to the Middle East this week that Iran has to change “quickly” in the negotiations with the USA or “will pass something bad”.

The United States and Iran completed their fourth round of talks in Oman on Sunday, which aimed to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions and stop their uranium enrichment program. A new round has not yet been announced.

“Nobody except Trump himself believes in his words against the Iranian nation,” said Pezeshkian. “On the one hand, he speaks of peace and stability and threatens (us) with the most demanding tools for murder and contradictory statements. He also sends peace messages, bloodshed and insecurity.”

Also on Saturday, the highest leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, referred to non -specified comments from Trump to Iran, which she described as a “shame for the American nation” and “no answer at all”.

Trump said on Friday that the United States had submitted a formal proposal for a nuclear agreement, but the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on the same day when Iran had not received any written proposals from Washington directly or indirectly.

“There is no scenario in which Iran gives up his hard -earned right to peaceful purposes on the enrichment (uranium): also for all other signatories (non -widening) that are delivered to all other signatories (non -expansion),” said Araghchi.

In an interview with Breitbart last week, the US foreign representative Steve Witkoff said that the Iranian uranium enrichment program had to be dismantled, even though he had proposed in an earlier interview with Fox News that Iranium may enrich uranium at low levels.

The latest round of talks between the USA and Iran in the Omani capital Muscat was described as “difficult” by the spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A high -ranking official from the Trump Administration gave a more positive assessment and informed CNN that the discussions over three hours lasted were encouraging.

During his Golf tour, Trump repeatedly warned that Iran should never get a nuclear weapon, which threatens to strike the country if he does not give up nuclear agreements with the United States. But he has not expressly excluded the Iranian uranium. While an enriched uranium can be used for peaceful purposes such as energy generation, it can be converted into a weapon if it is enriched at a high level.