Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump speaks simultaneously about peace and threats.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump speaks simultaneously about peace and threats.
"Which should we believe?" Pezeshkian said at a naval event in Tehran. "On the one hand, he speaks of peace and on the other, he threatens with the most advanced tools of mass killing."
Tehran would continue Iran-U.S. nuclear talks but is not afraid of threats. "We are not seeking war," he said.
Trump said on Friday that Iran had a U.S. proposal about its nuclear programme and knows it needs to move quickly to resolve a decades-long dispute.
"More importantly, they know they have to move quickly or something bad — something bad's going to happen," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One after departing the United Arab Emirates on Friday, according to an audio recording of the remarks.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in a post on X said Tehran had not received a U.S. proposal. "There is no scenario in which Iran abandons its hard-earned right to (uranium) enrichment for peaceful purposes..." he said.
Pezeshkian said Iran would not "back down from our legitimate rights".
"Because we refuse to bow to bullying, they say we are source of instability in the region," he said.
A fourth round of Iran-U.S. talks ended in Oman last Sunday. A new round has not been scheduled yet.
Reporting by Dubai newsroom
U.S. President Donald Trump said talks with Iran will happen on Monday but declined to set a deadline for an agreement after earlier saying he had called off an imminent attack in hopes of quickly reaching a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resolve the impasse over Tehran's nuclear capabilities.
Iran executed two of its citizens on Monday on charges of espionage and cooperation with Israel, Iranian state media reported, amid an increase in executions for offences relating to national security.
President Donald Trump said late on Saturday the U.S. would hold off on a fresh attack on Iran as long as a deal could be reached quickly to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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