The Deputy Foreign Minister in the negotiations stated that Iran’s red line is the issue of uranium enrichment.
Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesperson for the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, announced a meeting with Kazem Gharibabadi, the Deputy Foreign Minister, regarding the recent negotiations between Iran and the United States in Rome.
Rezaei, quoting Gharibabadi, said Iran emphasizes its right to enrich uranium, and this issue is a red line for the Islamic Republic in the negotiations.
Gharibabadi stated that the Islamic Republic is completely serious and will not accept any delays in the negotiation process, adding that Iran is not pursuing the construction of nuclear weapons and that the country’s nuclear activities are solely conducted within peaceful objectives.
The spokesperson for the National Security Commission also said that in the initial negotiations, the Americans accepted Iran’s right to enrich uranium, and we will not retreat from this right for which we have shed blood.
On the other hand, Mohammad Mehdi Shahriari, a member of the same commission, claimed that over the past two years, Iran has been in contact with Donald Trump’s team, the President of the United States, and these communications were conducted with the knowledge of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic.
In 2018, Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement known as the JCPOA and reinstated heavy sanctions against Iran.
Following this action, Iran increased its level of uranium enrichment and brought it to about 65 percent, a level that brings the country close to the threshold of nuclear bomb-making capability.