Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, said Saturday that Tehran will not be intimidated in the negotiations, a day after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said he had sent a letter to the main authority of the country to negotiate a nuclear agreement.
In an interview with Fox businessTrump said that “there are two ways in which Iran can be handled: militarily, or make an agreement” to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
In a meeting with senior Iranian officials, Khamenei said that the objective of the offer of Washington negotiations was to “impose their own expectations,” Iranian state media reported.
“The insistence of some bully governments in negotiations is not to solve problems, but to dominate and impose their own expectations.”
“The conversations for them are a way to have new expectations, it is not just about Iran’s nuclear problem. They will definitely not accept their expectations. “
While expressing an opening to an agreement with Tehran, Trump has restored a “maximum pressure” campaign that was applied during his first mandate to isolate Iran of the global economy and bring their oil exports to zero.
During his first period of 2017-2021 as president, Trump withdrew the United States from a historical agreement between Iran and the main powers that placed strict limits to Tehran’s nuclear activities in exchange for relief of sanctions.
After Trump retired in 2018 and imposed sanctions again, Iran violated and exceeded those limits.
The UN Nuclear Surveillance Chief Rafael Grossi said that time is being depleted for diplomacy to impose new restrictions on Iran’s activities, since Tehran continues to accelerate its enrichment from uranium to a close degree of weapons.
Tehran insists that his nuclear work is only for peaceful purposes.
The attack on Iran’s nuclear plant would leave the Gulf without water: Qatar PM
Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Bin Jassim al-Thani, warned that an attack on the nuclear facilities of the Gulf coast of Iran would leave countries throughout the region without water.
In an interview with the personality of the right -wing media of the United States Tucker Carlson, which is close to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, the prime minister said that Doha had simulated the effects of an attack. The sea would be “completely contaminated” and Qatar “will run out of water in three days,” he said.
The construction of deposits since then had increased water capacity, he added, but the risk remained for “all of us” in the region.
“Without water, without fish, nothing … lifeless,” added Sheikh Mohammed in the interview published on Friday, the same day Trump said he had invited Iran to nuclear conversations.
Qatar, which is located 190 kilometers south of Iran, depends largely on desalination for its water supply, as well as other Arabic countries of the Gulf in the arid desert region.
Iran has a nuclear energy plant in Bushehr on the Gulf coast, although its uranium enrichment facilities, key to building atomic weapons, are hundreds of kilometers inwards.
Referring to the sites “On the other side of the coast”, Sheikh Mohammed said that Qatar had “not only military concerns, but also security and … security concerns.”
He said that Qatar opposed military action against Iran and that “it would not give up until we see a diplomatic solution between the United States and Iran.”
Tehran was “willing to participate,” he said. “They are willing to reach a level that creates comfort for all.”
