Iran says no prospect of talks as West builds pressure over nuclear issue

Foreign curate says Iran has not been enriching uranium astatine immoderate of its sites since Israel and the US bombed them.

Tehran, Iran – Iranian authorities support that the United States and its allies are acceptable connected a forceful attack implicit the country’s atomic programme, truthful negotiations look acold off.

The medication of US President Donald Trump has near nary country for talks by repeatedly presenting “maximalist demands”, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said connected Sunday astatine a quality league successful Tehran.

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“The existent attack of the US authorities successful nary mode shows readiness for an adjacent and just dialog to unafraid communal interests,” helium said connected the sidelines of the state-organised Tehran Dialogue Forum, which diplomats and envoys from crossed the portion attended.

Iranian officials said they person been receiving messages from neighbouring countries that are trying to mediate and support the peace. A missive from Araghchi was besides delivered to Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani connected Sunday that deals with Iran, the ceasefire successful Gaza and different issues, according to Iranian media.

Araghchi said connection channels stay unfastened with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arsenic well. Iran’s envoy to Vienna, wherever the atomic watchdog is based, was joined connected Friday by counterparts from China and Russia successful a gathering with the representatives of the United Nations agency.

“There’s nary enrichment close present due to the fact that our atomic enrichment facilities person been attacked,” the overseas curate said astatine the quality conference. “Our connection is clear: Iran’s close for peaceful usage of atomic energy, including enrichment, is undeniable, and we volition proceed to workout it.”

Last week, the latest IAEA confidential study connected Iran’s atomic programme was leaked to Western media, which reported that the UN bureau has not been capable to verify Iran’s stockpile of 60 percent-enriched uranium since its facilities were bombed and severely damaged by the US and Israel successful June.

The IAEA said it needed “long overdue” inspections of 7 of the sites targeted during the war, including Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan.

Iran has granted the IAEA entree to the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant and the Tehran Research Reactor but has said information and information conditions person not been met for inspections astatine different facilities arsenic the high-enriched uranium stays buried.

Another resolution?

Iranian officials signalled implicit the play that 3 European powers – France, the United Kingdom and Germany – which were portion of the country’s now-defunct 2015 atomic deal with satellite powers, whitethorn beryllium mobilising to present different Iran-focused solution to the IAEA’s board.

Iran responded to respective erstwhile censure resolutions with escalations successful uranium enrichment, and Israel launched its June attacks connected Iran a time aft the IAEA passed a European-tabled resolution that recovered Tehran noncompliant with its atomic safeguards commitments.

Speaking to reporters successful Tehran connected Sunday, the lawman for planetary and ineligible affairs successful Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, said Iran “reserves the close to reconsider its approaches” if a caller solution moves through.

He said the 3 European countries’ effort was a US-backed determination to reinstate UN sanctions against Iran contempt beardown absorption from China and Russia past period and it “eliminated them from the tract of dialog and diplomacy with Iran”.

“Another solution volition carnivore nary further unit connected Iran, but the connection it volition nonstop shows that collaboration and coordination are not important to them,” Gharibabadi said.

Iran’s atomic programme chief, Mohammad Eslami, besides slammed the West and the IAEA, telling reporters connected Sunday that the UN bureau is being utilized for governmental purposes, which “enforces treble standards and a instrumentality of the jungle that indispensable beryllium stopped”.

“The attacks connected Iran’s facilities were unprecedented. It was the archetypal clip that atomic facilities nether bureau supervision were attacked, which meant a usurpation of planetary law, but the IAEA did not condemn the attacks,” Eslami said.

Iran’s subject commanders proceed to awesome defiance arsenic well. Defence Minister Amir Hatami told a gathering of lawmakers connected Sunday that equipped forces person been “sparing nary infinitesimal successful improving defence capabilities” aft the 12-day warfare with Israel.

Tensions stay precocious successful the portion aft the warfare with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps connected Saturday confirming that it seized a Cyprus-registered tanker that transited done the Strait of Hormuz.