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The Iranian supreme chief affirms that the question of the enrichment of uranium remains the key to the pursuit by Tehran of energy independence.
Iranian supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promised that Tehran does not give up his Uranium enrichmentRejecting a key request in an American proposal aimed at resolving a long -standing dispute on the Iranian nuclear program.
The comments were delivered Wednesday in a speech while the United States and Iran continue to negotiate the details of a possible new nuclear agreement. The question of the enrichment of uranium has remained a point of collision in talks, the United States would have required a complete stop or a low level enrichment in exchange for the lifting of Western sanctions against Tehran.
“The American nuclear proposal contradicts our nation’s belief in self-compliance and the principle of” we can “,” said Khamenei in his speech on the commemoration of the death of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1989.
Khamenei said that the question of enriching uranium has remained the key to Iran’s pursuit of energy independence.
“Independence means not to wait for the green light from America and people like America,” he said, adding that the American proposal was “100% against” the ideals of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
He said Tehran would not ask Washington’s approval for his decisions.
“Some people think that rationality means bowing before America and going to oppressive power; it is not rationality,” said Khamenei.
“Why do you interfere if Iran should have an enrichment or not? You cannot have a say.”
On Monday, the Reuters news agency reported that Tehran was about to reject the last American proposal to end a nuclear dispute several decades, quoting an unnamed diplomat saying that the proposal was a “non-barer” who did not reach Washington’s position on uranium enrichment or to respond to Tehran’s interests.
Tehran said she wanted to master nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and has long denied the accusations of the Western powers that he seeks to develop nuclear weapons.
The American envoy Steve Witkoff, who heads the American delegation in talks with Iran, said that President Donald Trump opposes Tehran by pursuing everything, qualifying him as “red line”.
A disclosed report of the United Nations shows that Iran has increased the production of enriched with uranium near the quality of weapons of 50% In the last three months. It is still short, however, of around 90% required for atomic weapons, but still considerably greater than the 4% necessary for the production of electricity.
Iran, however, rejected the latest report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA), saying that it is “politically motivated and repeating the baseless accusations”.
