{"id":70942,"date":"2025-04-16T17:33:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=70942"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:33:41","slug":"iran-fm-says-uranium-enrichment-non-negotiable-after-trump-envoy-urged-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/iran-fm-says-uranium-enrichment-non-negotiable-after-trump-envoy-urged-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran FM Says Uranium Enrichment ‘Non-negotiable’ After Trump Envoy Urged Halt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi<\/a> said Wednesday that Iran’s enrichment of uranium as part of its nuclear programme was “non-negotiable” after US Special Envoy <\/a>Steve Witkoff called for a halt.<\/p>\n

“Iran’s enrichment is a real, accepted matter. We are ready to build confidence in response to possible concerns, but\u00a0the issue of enrichment is non-negotiable,” Araghchi told reporters after a cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n

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The remarks came as Araghchi and Witkoff are due to meet again in Oman on Saturday, a week after they held the highest-level talks between the longtime foes since US President Donald Trump abandoned a landmark nuclear deal in 2018.<\/p>\n

Trump reimposed sweeping sanctions in a policy of “maximum pressure” against Tehran that he has reinstated since returning to office in January.<\/p>\n

In March, he sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urging talks but warning of possible military action if they fail to produce a deal.<\/p>\n

Both sides described Saturday’s meeting as “constructive”.<\/p>\n

But on Tuesday, Witkoff said Iran must “stop and eliminate” its enrichment of uranium as part of any nuclear deal.<\/p>\n

He had previously demanded only that Iran return to the 3.67 percent enrichment ceiling set by the 2015 accord between Iran and major powers that Trump withdrew from.<\/p>\n

Araghchi condemned what he called the “contradictory and conflicting positions” coming out of the Trump administration ahead of Saturday’s talks.<\/p>\n

“We will find out the true opinions of the Americans during the negotiation session,” he said.<\/p>\n

Iran’s top diplomat said he hoped to start negotiations on the framework of a possible agreement but said that required “constructive positions” from the United States.<\/p>\n

“If we continue to (hear) contradictory and conflicting positions, we are going to have problems,” he warned.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Khamenei cautioned that while the talks have proceeded well in their early stages, they could still prove fruitless.<\/p>\n

“The negotiations may or may not yield results,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Wednesday that Iran’s enrichment of uranium as part of its nuclear programme was “non-negotiable” after US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff called for a halt. “Iran’s enrichment is a real, accepted matter. We are ready to build confidence in response to possible concerns, but\u00a0the issue of enrichment is non-negotiable,” Araghchi told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":70668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[875,27900],"class_list":["post-70942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-usa","tag-iran-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70943,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70942\/revisions\/70943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}