Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rejected President Donald Trump’s proposal for a new nuclear deal, vowing to keep amassing enriched uranium needed for a weapons program.
Amid fanatic applause and jihadist sloganeering by regime supporters, Khamenei boasted that there wasn’t “a damn thing” the U.S. or Israel could do about Iran’s nuclear program. “Those currently in power, Zionist or American, should be aware that they can’t do a damn thing about this,” he said Wednesday in during a televised speech.
Khamenei, who has the final say on the regime’s all major decisions, dismissed the Trump administration’s key demand that Tehran should stop enriching uranium, a main ingredient in nuclear bombs.
“The rude and arrogant leaders of America repeatedly demand that we should not have a nuclear program,” the Iranian tyrant declared. “Who are you to decide whether Iran should have enrichment?”
By refusing to stop the nuclear program, Khamenei is on a collision course with Washington.
President Trump, on Monday, declared that the U.S. wanted to see an end to Iran’s rogue nuclear enrichment program. “Under our potential Agreement — WE WILL NOT ALLOW ANY ENRICHMENT OF URANIUM!” The president wrote on Truth Social.
The Associated Press reported the Iranian tyrant’s rejection:
Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday criticized an initial proposal from the United States in negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, though he stopped short of entirely rejecting the idea of agreement with Washington.The remarks by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei colored in the red line expressed over recent days — one that says Tehran refuses to give up enriching uranium in any possible deal with the U.S.That demand has been repeatedly made by American officials, including President Donald Trump, though it remains unclear just how much U.S Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff brought it up in his initial proposal to Iran.(…)Khamenei’s speech on Wednesday, … offered an opportunity to discuss Witkoff’s proposal. He described it as “100% against the idea of ‘we can,’” borrowing from an Iranian government slogan. He described the U.S. as having long sought the dismantling of Iran’s entire nuclear industry.“The impolite and insolent American leaders keep repeating this demand with different wordings,” Khamenei said.He added, using a slogan he’s said before: “Those currently in power, Zionist or American, should be aware that they can’t do a damn thing about this.”
The rejection comes after the Trump administration, on Saturday, presented Iranian negotiators a plan for a possible nuclear deal. The White House described the proposed plan as “detailed and acceptable.”
“The U.S. proposal for a new nuclear deal was presented to Iran on Saturday by Oman, which has mediated talks between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff,” Reuters noted.
Iran is hoarding a large stockpile of near weapons-grade enriched uranium, the key raw material for making nuclear bombs.
According to a recent report by the UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), ” Iran has amassed 900.8 pounds of uranium enriched up to 60%.408.6 kilograms (900.8 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60%,” the CBS News reported Saturday. “The 60% enriched material is a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
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