Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei doubts success of nuclear talks with US
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei voiced doubts on Tuesday over whether nuclear talks with the United States will lead to an agreement, Mehr news reported, as Tehran reviews a proposal to hold a fifth round of negotiations.
“I don’t think nuclear talks with the U.S. will be bring results. I don’t know,” Khamenei said during a speech in remembrance of Iran’s late President Ebrahim Raisi.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said U.S. demands that Tehran refrain from enriching uranium are “excessive and outrageous”, state media reported, voicing doubts whether nuclear talks will lead to an agreement.
Despite expectations that a fifth round of negotiations might take place over the weekend in Rome, nuclear talks are on shaky ground as both Iran and the U.S. have clashed on the issue of nuclear enrichment.
Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said on Monday that talks would fail if Washington insists that Tehran refrains from domestic enrichment of uranium, which the U.S. says is a possible pathway to developing nuclear bombs. Tehran says its nuclear energy programme has entirely peaceful purposes.
