Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif today (Saturday) directly addressed possible negotiations with the United States on the nuclear deal and clarified that his country would not agree to any change in the terms of the agreement.
“The nuclear deal is an international document approved by the United Nations Security Council in a special resolution, it is non-negotiable and the parties involved are clear and unchangeable,” Zarif’s spokesman Said Khatibzadeh clarified.
This is a further hardening of Tehran’s positions vis – à – vis the Biden administration, which has said it will make efforts to return to the nuclear deal with Iran, but has not clarified the terms. On Tuesday, Zarif said his country would not stop accelerating its nuclear program development measures, which blatantly violate the nuclear deal, without an immediate cessation of U.S. sanctions.
Iran does not hesitate to detail to the world its failure to accelerate its nuclear program. On Thursday, the chairman of the Iranian nuclear agency, Bahruz Kamelbandi, presented Iran’s progress in the field of uranium enrichment and said that his country had installed thousands of centrifuges at the new underground facility in Natanz in the past three months.
Camelbandi said during a visit to the Purdue Nuclear Center that his country had completed the development of the new centrifuges, which allow uranium enrichment to levels above 20 percent, a level from which nuclear weapons development can begin.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Muhammad Kalibaf, who accompanied Camelbandi to the Frodo site, said his country had succeeded in producing more than 17 kilograms of 20% enriched fissile material. Per year.
The enrichment of the pines to a level of over 20% and the development of advanced hubs are a blatant violation of the nuclear agreement signed by Iran, and the persistence of the Islamic Republic in these steps is a clear message for the new administration that Iran does not intend to provide goodwill at the expense of its nuclear program. Back to the negotiating table on the return of the United States to the nuclear agreement with it.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Thursday that negotiations with Iran were still far away, due to Tehran’s conduct. Blinkan added that his country will not hold a hearing with Tehran as long as it continues to violate previous agreements with it.