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

TEHRAN Iran AP Iran s president stated his country will continue talks with the United States over its rapidly advancing nuclear activity but will not withdraw from its rights because of U S threats We are negotiating and we will negotiate we are not after war but we do not fear any threat President Masoud Pezeshkian mentioned during a speech to navy agents broadcast by state television Saturday It is not like that they think if they threaten us we will give up our human right and definite right Pezeshkian disclosed We will not withdraw we will not easily loose honorable military scientific nuclear in all fields The negotiations have reached the expert level meaning the sides are trying to reach agreement on the details of a realizable deal But a major sticking point remains Iran s enrichment of uranium which Tehran insists it must be allowed to do and the Trump administration increasingly insists the Islamic Republic must give up President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to unleash airstrikes targeting Iran s campaign if a deal isn t reached Iranian bureaucrats increasingly warn they could pursue a nuclear weapon with their stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels Earlier on Friday Trump stated Iran received a proposal during the talks though he did not elaborate During his trip to region this week Trump at nearly every event insisted Iran could not be allowed to obtain a nuclear bomb something U S intelligence agencies assess Tehran is not actively pursuing though its operation is on the cusp of being able to weaponize nuclear material Mohammad Eslami the head of Iran s atomic organization stressed the peaceful nature of the venture saying it is under continuous monitoring by the U N nuclear watchdog state TV communicated Saturday No country is monitored by the agency like us Eslami stated adding that the agency inspected the country s nuclear facilities more than time in Something about of all the agency inspections in the year Meanwhile Israel routinely has threatened to strike Iran s nuclear facilities if it feels threatened further complicating tensions in the Mideast already spiked by the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza In his first reaction to Trump s regional visit Iran s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated Trump wasn t truthful when he made maintains about creating peace through power Trump commented that he needed to use power for peace he lied He and the U S administration used power for massacre in Gaza for waging wars in any place they could Khamenei reported Saturday during a meeting with teachers broadcast on state television The U S has provided Israel with -ton bombs to drop on Gaza children hospitals houses of people in Lebanon and anywhere else when they can Khamenei explained Khamenei who has the final say on all Iranian state matters reiterated his traditional stance against Israel Definitely the Zionist regime is the spot of corruption war rifts The Zionist regime that is lethal dangerous cancerous tumor should be certainly eradicated and it will be he reported adding that the U S has imposed a pattern on Arab nations under which they cannot endeavor without U S patronage Surely this model has failed With efforts of the regional nations the U S should leave the region and it will leave Khamenei noted Iran has long considered the U S military presence in the region as a threat on its doorstep especially after Trump pulled the U S out of a nuclear deal with Iran in and reimposed crippling sanctions