Iran’s Khamenei Fed Up With Trump’s “Nonsense” Demands, Defers Future Talks

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has let his displeasure about Donald Trump and the US administration’s calls for within the essential nuclear talks be identified publicly, calling them nonsensical and totally outrageous.

Khamenei, who’s more and more uncertain {that a} new nuclear take care of the US will see the sunshine of day, has referred to as the US’ calls for of Tehran ending all uranium enrichment as “extreme and outrageous”.

Asked in regards to the progress being made by Tehran and Washington in drafting a brand new nuclear deal, a visibly aggravated Mr Khamenei stated, “I do not suppose nuclear talks with the US will carry any end result. I do not know what’s going to occur.”

‘NOT NEGOTIABLE’

Four rounds of talks in, Mr Khamenei, pissed off with Washington’s insistence over ‘no enrichment’, stated the US ought to keep away from such “nonsense” calls for, which Iran has made clear, is “non-negotiable”.

Giving a chilly shoulder to Washington over its request to carry the following (fifth) spherical of talks, Iran’s international minister Abbas Araqchi stated, “A date has been advised however now we have not but accepted it.” However, there was some discuss in each capitals in regards to the doable venue being Rome.

‘DEFIES LOGIC’

Iran’s international minister went on to say that the calls for being made by the US facet throughout negotiations “defy logic”. Such an strategy “creates issues” and would possibly derail talks, he hinted. He stated Iran is ready for logic to prevail in Washington earlier than Tehran even considers the following spherical of talks.

“We are witnessing positions on the US facet that don’t go together with any logic and are creating issues for the negotiations. That’s why now we have not decided the following spherical of talks. We are reviewing the matter and hope logic will in the end prevail,” he stated.

Both sides have been combative relating to talks on uranium enrichment, and neither is seeking to budge on its stance, resulting in, what now looks as if, a stalemate. Preempting this, Donald Trump has issued an open-ended risk to Iran – “transfer shortly or one thing dangerous goes to occur”.

TRUMP’S WARNING TO IRAN

In latest instances – when Iran was reluctant to even come to the negotiating desk – Donald Trump had threatened Tehran on a number of events, saying Iran could be bombed and shall additionally face very harsh sanctions if it didn’t compromise on its nuclear programme. President Trump has already moved in two US plane service fleet – USS Carl Vinson and USS Harry S Truman – within the Arabian Sea whereas additionally ordering the largest-ever deployment of B-2 bombers within the Indian Ocean – at its navy base in Diego Garcia.

Satellite photographs have proven not less than six B-2 stealth bombers parked alongside the navy base runway in Diego Garcia – a joint Indian Ocean navy base of the US and Britain. That’s roughly 30 per cent of its B2 Bomber fleet.

NUKE AMBITION

Steve Witkoff, United States Special Envoy to the Middle East has stated that for civilian functions, 3.67 per cent uranium enrichment is sufficient. Tehran has already gone far past that. Enrichment ranges of uranium in Iran are already as much as 60 per cent – a brief, technical step away from reaching weapons-grade ranges of 90 per cent.

“This can’t be allowed,” Mr Witkoff has stated, whereas Donald Trump backed him, saying, “Iran has to eliminate the idea of a nuclear weapon. These are radicalised individuals, and so they can’t have a nuclear weapon.”