Iran says no sanctions relief in U.S. nuclear proposal

Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that “the U.S. program does not adjacent notation the lifting of sanctions”. File | Photo Credit: AP

Iran's Parliament Speaker said connected Sunday (June 8, 2025) that the latest U.S. connection for a atomic woody does not see the lifting of sanctions, authorities media reported arsenic negotiations look to person deed a roadblock.

The 2 foes person held 5 rounds of Omani-mediated talks since April, seeking to regenerate a landmark statement betwixt Tehran and satellite powers that acceptable restrictions connected Iran's atomic activities successful instrumentality for sanctions relief, earlier U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned the accord during his archetypal word successful 2018.

In a video aired connected Iranian authorities TV, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that "the U.S. program does not adjacent notation the lifting of sanctions".

He called it a motion of dishonesty, accusing the Americans of seeking to enforce a "unilateral" statement that Tehran would not accept.

"The delusional U.S. President should cognize amended and alteration his attack if helium is truly looking for a deal," Mr. Ghalibaf said.

On May 31, aft the 5th circular of talks, Iran said it had received "elements" of a U.S. proposal, with officials aboriginal taking contented with "ambiguities" successful the draught text.

The U.S. and its Western allies person agelong accused the Islamic Republic of seeking to get atomic weapons, a complaint Iran has consistently denied, insisting that its atomic programme was solely for peaceful purposes.

Key issues successful the negotiations person been the removal of biting economical sanctions and uranium enrichment.

Tehran says it has the close to enrich uranium nether the atomic Non-Proliferation Treaty, portion the Trump medication has called immoderate Iranian enrichment a "red line".

Mr. Trump, who has revived his "maximum pressure" run of sanctions connected Iran since taking bureau successful January, has repeatedly said it volition not beryllium allowed immoderate uranium enrichment nether a imaginable deal.

On Tuesday (June 3, 2025), Iran's apical negotiator, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, said the state "will not inquire anyone for support to proceed enriching uranium".

According to the UN atomic watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran is the lone non-nuclear-weapon authorities successful the satellite that enriches uranium up to 60% — inactive abbreviated of the 90% threshold needed for a atomic warhead.

Iran's ultimate leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, connected Wednesday (June 4, 2025) rejected the latest U.S. connection and said enrichment was "key" to Iran's atomic programme.

The IAEA Board of Governors is scheduled to conscionable successful Vienna aboriginal this period and sermon Iran's atomic activities.

Published - June 08, 2025 09:29 p.m. IST